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Design Challenge

 

Team resources and competition dates

Design Challenge 2023 team registration

  • First- and second-year teams can now register

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Team document library

  • Specification documents for 2023 entrants

 

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The 2023 project is to build an internal pipe climber. Teams will be tasked with building an internal pipe-climbing robot. This is a device that can climb up the inside of a piece of vertical transparent tube lifting an increasing load, limited only by the cost and sizings listed in the competition specifications.

Regional Final dates

  • North Eastern: 3 May 2023
  • North Western: 26 April 2023
  • Wessex: 23 March 2023
  • Greater London: 31 March 2023
  • Midlands: 22 June 2023
  • Yorkshire: 2 June 2023

National Final

  • 13 October 2023

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