Are you passionate about Engineering and looking for an opportunity to develop your presentation skills? Speak Out for Engineering is a competition designed to help develop verbal and visual communication in explaining technical mechanical engineering related subjects. The successful winner of the Ireland heat will be flown over to the iMechE Headquarters in London (located right beside Buckindham Palace and Big Ben) during December to present their presentation for the England-Ireland Speak Out For Engineering Final and be in chance of winning £300 - 1st Prize or £200 - 2nd prize.

What do competitors have to do?
Competitors are required to prepare a written presentation summary of 200 words maximum using the entrants form found here://www.pedrorafa.com/docs/default-source/sofe/entrant-application-form.docx?sfvrsn=0This should be sent directly to roiymchair@imechenearyou.org by 5pm on the 12th of November 2018

Selection Process:
The finalists must give their presentation as an individual regardless of whether the subject is part of a group technical project. Judges will expect more experienced competitors to have developed presentation skills and their marking assessment will reflect this. A winning entry in any year is not eligible for entry in subsequent years. In order to take place in the competition, participants must be members of iMechE (student membership is free)

Presentation Details:
Finalists must give an oral presentation to be broken down as follows:
Presentation length: 15 mins
Discussion and questions from judges: maximum 10 mins

Judging:
90% of the total marks are given for presentation with only 10% for technical content. This ensures that, while all presentations must have mechanical engineering content in its broadest sense (e.g. purpose, research, design, feasibility, and practicality), all presentations have the same chance of success despite varying degrees of technical content. The decision of the judges on the award of the prizes shall be final and no correspondence can be entered into.

For more information on applying and preparation:
//www.pedrorafa.com/get-involved/young-members-network/speak-out-for-engineering