Hall of Fame
The YEOTY Mission
Now in its ninth year, the annual KMF Young Engineer of the Year Competition brings together year 10 high school teams with sponsors from industry and higher education. Since the YEOTY launch in 2012, 25,500 pupils and over 60 companies have taken part, with £1m invested to date.
Our mission is to challenge curious minds, inspire innovation, raise aspirations, encourage teamwork, and ignite interest in engineering careers.
This year our “Classtronauts” will compete using cutting-edge high altitude balloon technology to design, engineer and launch their creation into space, track its journey and visually record the whole process, by presenting a video of the whole project and its flight.
The energy and commitment from everyone involved is inspiring and the fact that today, we have former YEOTY winners and finalists working in our business and achieving great things, is testament to its success.
(People and Culture Manager at KMF)
We love getting involved in this fun, educational and rewarding project. This will be the 7th year we have participated.
Shaun Mitchell
It's a pleasure to provide mentorship to young people and help them to realise there's a great future ahead for aspiring engineers.
Competition Timeline
30/11/2021
Sent Into Space workshop, at Newcastle under Lyme College.
March 2022
Science Experience Day with Staffordshire University.
June 2022
The missions into space take off.
September 2022
Accolades awarded at a September ceremony. Discover which team flew the highest, created the most stunning images and videos, transmitted the clearest signal back to earth and who the KMF Young Engineer of the Year, 2022 will be.
