News Update

The latest news: 16 schools participated with 43 teams. Approx 170 students involved with last year's project.

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See our Facebook page: Rotary Club of Leeds Technology Tournament for Schools.

Are you or your school or college up for a new challenge in 2026?

It's a New Year and everyone has new challenges to face. A New class, friends, teacher or dreaded exam!

The country is desperate for engineers to design products or services for the future and over 100,000 a year are required to replace existing staff due to leave due for retirement. What an opportunity for your future.

Why not challenge yourself from the brief we give you to plan, design and make a working model. A good opportunity to work as a team of 4 and learn from your mistakes, modify your ideas and have the satisfaction that "you made it".

Engineering covers all aspects of our life and without engineers life would not progress to make things easier and more enjoyable. It is a rewarding career and there is a high demand from industry for new talent.

The new task for this year has now been finalised and is relevant to our society. It will test your imagination by designing your interpretation of the brief we give you and it will be fun to participate as a team. Essential in a working environment.

 If your school has not indicated their interest now is the time to apply.

The 2026 Tournament 

The Tournament is back! It will take place on Tuesday 10th March 2026, 9:00am to 15:00pm

At the John Charles Centre, Bowling & Athletics Centre,Middleton Grove, Belle Isle, Leeds LS11 5DJ

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The task is now finalised and the next step is for members of the committee to build the model and amend where necessary.

Tournament 2025

We were honoured to receive visits from the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Abigail Marshall-Katung who presented the prizes to the winners . She also gave an inspiring speech stressing the importance engineers have in our society and how they are involved in improving our lifestyle. 

The Lord Mayor was so fascinated by the activity shown by the teams that he stayed and presented the prizes. 

The 2025 Results

Level	Winners
Foundation	Silcoates Team 3
Intermediate	Horsforth Team 1
Advanced	Benton Park
Innovation Prize	Silcoates Team 3

Team Work  Horsforth 1

Support

We were pleased to have received the support from:

• The University of Leeds who provided graduates to join our judging teams.
• Society of Architects (West Yorkshire) 
• 4 City councillors have contributed funds from their small budgets to enable the event
• Leeds Education Authority continue to be very supportive of our initiative
• The 6 Leeds Rotary Clubs

CREST award

We are recognised in providing the work required for a CREST Discovery level award Schools need to register for this in advance. We will be continuing to support CREST

Prospective employers are keen to see these attainments and UCAS views them favourably.