Initiative to celebrate the UK’s brightest young engineers

RS Components is partnering Electronics Weekly for the third year in succession to launch the EW BrightSparks initiative, which strives to find the brightest and most talented young electronics engineers in the UK today. As in previous years, BrightSparks 2019 is not restricted to just one winner but is intended to praise a group of young engineers. They may already be making a difference in the first year's of their working life, or maybe are still in education but showing great promise toward becoming the next generation of leaders and innovators in the electronics industry of the future. Nominations will be evaluated and shortlisted by a panel of professionals from across the electronics industry. The winning entrants will be announced on Wednesday 1st May 2019. “The UK, and the world needs innovation from our industry more than ever to support an increasingly global economy. But there is a critical skills gap, and as a major player in electronics we have a responsibility in helping to nurture the engineers of tomorrow,” said Lindsley Ruth, CEO at Electrocomponents. “We look to achieve this through a wide range of initiatives, and consequently we are continuing to support the EW BrightSparks programme. We strongly believe that by celebrating the achievements of young engineering role models we can help motivate and inspire other young people to choose STEM subjects in their education, to become our industry’s next generation of innovators.”