offering arkwright help!

hi everyone i js attended my arkwright award/networking ceremony for my fully funded scholarship! any help for applicants please let me know!! im more than happy to help out

hii im rn attending the application stage and was wondering, because im a dt student, if i can just upload my nea (coursework) or if its better to make something from scratch. also, i heard that this year the exam is online, so do u have any tips on what to learn, etc? just for context, for my final product im making like an automatic feeder with a dc motor, and infrared motion sensors for my user's cat. thank uu

heyy do you mind lmk what the exam questions were like? I think my class is behind on the theory tbh and I’m worried there will be questions I haven’t prepared enough for!!

Hi! i understand that youre exam format is a little different from what i sat but here was the paper i sat last year
https://www.arkwright.org.uk/downloads/aptitude-exam-exemplars/2024-exemplar-materials/aptitude-exam-paper-2024.pdf
so i did question 3 of part A, for one design i used simple coding which just essentially locked the scooter through different chains and padlocks and could only be accessed by the user via fingerprint id which i roughly coded , the next i used magnitesm and magnetic devices which would be on the floor of where the scooter was laid and the third i used clamps which would again be lined with magnetism and could be broken through a code from a safe/device issued to you. for part B i did question 6 and did an extensive flow chart. In the exam i did these obviously, in a lot more depth i cant stress enough how important it is to annotate your diagram. Use flow charts, circuit symbols, coding, ANNOTATE THE MATERIALS YOU ARE USING AND MECHANISMS AND JUSTIFY THEM! My school did not offer any prep for the exam and i have no background in dt so the way i prepared was completely independently so you will be fine! What i used to prep was, https://www.technologystudent.com/index.htm and https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zvg4d2p ! The questions are similar format to what i showed you, they are all engineering styled questions that will require you to show youre problem solving and knowledge of practicality of mechanisms. I hope this helps!

thank you so much ❣️❣️

wishing you luck! lmk how it goes

I did it today, it was 40 mins and multiple choice for all but nothing like last yr’s paper. There were like 16-21 questions per section which we had 10 mins for and mostly hypothetical and physics questions. Honestly I’m not sure if i did well or not but hopefully I can succeed like u!!

girl did they let you know beforehand? bc thats insane

hi everyone i js attended my arkwright award/networking ceremony for my fully funded scholarship! any help for applicants please let me know!! im more than happy to help out

Hey thanks so much for offering to help out! Do you have any tips for the interview?

omg! im so proud of you! so im assuming the interview was similar to that of last year, if it wasnt i apologize but if it is heres my help!! so, you need to know WHY you want to be an engineer, they will ask you questions about your first choice of specilization eg questions about MechEng so i advise you go over the basics of your first choice, they do ask basic questions. the interview is more relaxed than i expected, they ask a decent amount on your project and i highly reccomend adding in a second project (it was optional for us) so it gives you more depth. they place a lot of emphasis on leadership, why youll be a good future leader in stem and how you see yourself in the next 10 years! so be ready for all of that

omg! im so proud of you! so im assuming the interview was similar to that of last year, if it wasnt i apologize but if it is heres my help!! so, you need to know WHY you want to be an engineer, they will ask you questions about your first choice of specilization eg questions about MechEng so i advise you go over the basics of your first choice, they do ask basic questions. the interview is more relaxed than i expected, they ask a decent amount on your project and i highly reccomend adding in a second project (it was optional for us) so it gives you more depth. they place a lot of emphasis on leadership, why youll be a good future leader in stem and how you see yourself in the next 10 years! so be ready for all of that

Do you have any questions they may potentially ask for the interview I picked mechanical and aeronautical engineering

Hey there! I picked MechEng as my first choice do you have any tips on where I can learn more about the basics? I know a small amount but I just want to expand my knowledge before the interview just incase

Okay perfect, thank you so much! I'm going to start working on my presentation over the holidays so I'll add a second project!

yeses here! https://www.aboutmech.com/p/basics-of-mechanical-engineering.html