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Guidelines for application

Your project: The ‘technical paper’:
• The project you submit can be anything, provided • When Engineers, Scientists and Technologists submit their work to be
that electronics are integral to its successful function. published in a peer-reviewed journal or at an international conference,
We expect most applicants to use a project they they must write a ‘technical paper’ to a rigid formatting specification.
have already completed or are working on at To give applicants an early experience of this, we require applications in
university, school (curricular or extra-curricular) such a format. An example technical paper is provided here. Our example
or at home. There is no need to create a new project is a paper ‘converted’ from the D&T project portfolio prepared by Arkwright
specifically for this competition. All projects must be Scholar Vaughan Jubb-Buckley as part of his school-based GCSE project.
complete and functioning when the technical paper
and video are submitted • Submit your paper in exactly this format i.e. the same text font, size, style
and colour, and the same main Headings (Sections 1 to 8). You can change
• An applicant can submit multiple projects - each one subheadings and of course you must delete the example text and images
needs its own technical paper and video, but they must and add your own (you do not need to add the same number of images as
be submitted en masse in one email to the email in the example. Use however many images suits your project the best).
address below. Use the same bracketed number format where you want to refer to a
reference document (e.g. the example paper contains two references
• Applicants must report on their project using quoted in sections 2 and 3.2). Don’t forget to change the footer. Maximum of
a simplified ‘Technical Paper’ format and a 10 pages total please (yes we know the example paper is 12 pages long!)
two-minute video

The video: The prizes:
• Produce a video (maximum two minutes) and post • Each submitted project will be assessed by a panel of experts on its form,
it to YouTube to: showcase, demonstrate and explain function and innovation
the main functional features and technical aspects
of your project. • All technical papers adjudged to be of an adequate quality will be
published in an Institution of Electronics publication (great for your CV)
• Apart from its short duration we provide no other
guidelines for the video—be creative! • All applicants (and their teachers if the applicant is still at school) will
be invited to take part in the task force that will plan the next stage of the
Institution’s development
• The winner of each category (see the categories on the previous page)
will receive £200 plus a certificate

Competition deadlines: How to apply:

•Entries will be accepted from 1st July each year. The • Send an email to the membership officer
closing date is 31st August each year -late entries will admin@institutionofelectronics.ac.uk with the subject
not be accepted “National Electronics Competition”
•Results will be available mid October each year; • In the email state: your full name; your school (prior school if you are now at
Winners will receive their awards in November by university), your university if you are at university; the category number
arrangement with their school (1-5) that you are entering
• Institution publication, containing submitted papers • In your email include: your technical paper(s) as an attachment to the
of adequate quality, will be published the following standard specification, in an editable format (e.g. Microsoft Word);
year and a link to your YouTube video(s)
• Please note: Entry for existing student members is free,
if you are not currently a member please visit
https://institutionofelectronics.ac.uk/membership-grades/
and pay the £10.00 membership fee to join as a student member

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