On the 16th November 2024, the team attended the Electric Dreams event in Newcastle to display our project to a vast number of attendees throughout the day. Hosted by the Women’s Engineering Society, the event focused on themes of energy and climate change, promoting a vision of a greener future for all. Alongside other engineering …
On the 3rd of July 2025, the Durham University Solar Car Outreach team took part in the Durham Ogden Primary Partnership Celebration Day hosted at Durham University. The aim of the event is to recognise the achievements of Science Ambassadors across local schools and inspire young students through hands-on STEM experiences. To kick off the …
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2021 is shaping up to be another exciting year for DUEM, even if it didn’t go quite as planned. DUEM had originally intended to compete in the American Solar Challenge (ASC) 2021. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, we had to make the difficult decision to withdraw. However, in true DUEM spirit, that wasn’t going …
Here’s Ellie, our postgraduate advisor, giving a DUEM presentaton to St John’s MCR! The talk was called Blood Sweat & Carbon – Design, Development and Racing the Durham University Solar Car. It looked at the steps we took to design and manufacture an ultra efficient car like Ortus, and our subsequent journey across the Australian …
Our Outreach Team have been busy preparing and delivering Zoom presentations, including a recent session with Coxhoe Beavers and Scouts! Following the event we received some lovely feedback from the group; we are so glad to hear that they enjoyed it! A Successful Outreach Session! “Thank you to DUEM for their interesting and interactive presentation …
British Science Week runs from the 5th – 14th March. We are Durham University Electric Motorsport and have put together a short video to show students how STEM subjects can lead to exciting opportunities and how the skills gained from these subjects are essential for all future careers. This video aims to meet Gatsby Benchmark 4: “By the age …
Calling all pupils from Reception to Year 11 Your task is to design your very own solar-powered vehicle. The winner(s) will receive a 3D printed model of their vehicle and have a DUEM-led outreach session at their school.* Please click the Terms & Conditions icon for more details on the competition. Details on the competition …
On 2nd March 2020 the DUEM Outreach team visited Ings Farm Primary School to help with the ‘If I were an Engineer…’ project for the second year running in local primary schools. The project focuses on getting students to think like an engineer, by identifying problems and brainstorming ideas to tackle the issues. Throughout the week, …
Between the 2nd and 4th April, the DUEM Outreach team took part in the Schools’ Science Festival hosted at Durham University, an event attended by 780 pupils in years 9-10 from 27 schools across the local area, where they learnt what science is really used for in the real world. The aim of the event is to …
On the 22nd of March 2019, the DUEM outreach team and Head of Electrical visited Kingsley Primary School in Hartlepool to talk to students about the solar car and what it’s like to be an engineer. The pupils had been taking part in a week-long project titled ‘If I were an engineer’ where they had …