Design Challenge

 

Team resources, competition dates and competing teams

Design Challenge 2025 team registration

  • Teams of 2-6 students from universities and university technical colleges (UTCs) can now register

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Team document library

  • Specification documents for 2025 and 2026 teams
  • FAQs
  • Webinar recordings

 

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2025 Teams

Universities and teams taking part in the 2025 Design Challenge.

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All deliverables must be submitted via the Mashoom website. Team Leaders will automatically receive access to the Mashoom platform a few days after registration. Instructions on how to upload a file can be viewed here.

The Challenge is open to teams of 2-6 students from universities or university technical colleges (UTCs). Test your engineering and teamwork skills in regional heats taking place between March and May 2025, with the winners of each regional heat qualifying for the National Final.


Wessex Regional Final
25 March 2025, Defence Battlelab, Dorchester

North West Regional Final
26 March 2025, University of Manchester

Greater London Regional Final
25 April 2025, Imperial College London

North East Regional Final
30 April 2025, Northumbria University

Yorkshire Regional Final
2 May 2025, Sheffield Hallam University

Welsh Regional Final
7 May 2025, Swansea University

Scottish Regional Final
29 May 2025, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

National Final
10 October 2025, One Birdcage Walk, London

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Design Challenge Industry Partner

  • Ansys