As President of the engineering society, I was in charge of arranging the annual intra- and inter- school engineering challenge events, along with promoting engineering across the school more generally. Coordinating the challenges involved coming up with an idea - such as building the tallest tower using jelly babies and spaghetti or building the most stable bridge using lollypop sticks and glue - arranging the staff on duty, booking the workshop and obtaining the materials. For the inter-school challenges, we additionally needed to coordinate with the other schools' engineering societies to find a date that was most convenient for all.

Through a Japanese acquaintance we had made through the BalloonSat project, I set up an international collaboration between our school and a Japanese high school called ISTEAC, whereby students would design and build a weather station to compare the climates in real time between Japan and the UK. This project lead several on the UK team to further pursue engineering, and indeed go on to win national competitions, funded by the Engineering Society.

The Electronics Society acted as more of an experience-sharing platform for the students that followed us in entering the Toyota STEM Challenge and CanSat competition. The society's CanSat entry the year following ours ended up winning the International European competition in Portugal, using a similar secondary mission and design approach as ours.