Currently, the Young Engineer for Britain Competition attracts a good number of students from across the UK and the span of projects showcased at the 12 regional finals and the national finals is exceptionally diverse. These range from items to help the disabled, travel ideas and accessories, sport related projects, projects that impact on the environment and household goods and electronics projects. Invariably, the majority of projects are students GCSE/A Level work although private work does also feature. The quality of projects that reach the National Final is always astonishing and the degree of creativity, innovation and entreneurships shown by entrants is exceptional. In recent years, the overall winner and Young Engineer for Britain for that year has gone on to achieve considerable commercial sucess for their product and to take a number of other prestigious awards. However, participation is still relatively low and we need to increase both the awarness of the competition and its attractiveness so that many more schools take part and we see a true representation of engineering projects being undertaken by our secondary school students. Funding would allow much greater publicity and show teachers and students the value of participation, provide for mentoring of registrants, better regional finals and more opportunties for students to take part in the national final.