Regional and Digital Heats

Register your interest for the 2026 regional events here

How does it work?

Teams will join forces to form a fictional company and spend the day preparing their presentation, showcasing their design, to meet the event’s Request for Proposal. These events will nominally run from an arrival time of 08:30 through to a wrap-up time of 20:00, Any questions, get in touch with us by emailing registration@uksdc.org or via our social media.

For the 2026/27 competition year, we are holding our qualifying heats in person again. However, for those who do not live in close proximity to one of our regional heats, we will continue to hold a digital heat, subject to demand.

Please fill in the Registration Form to sign up for your Regional or Digital Qualifier.

Our 2026 events

Glasgow

26th September 2026,
EVENT ENDED

London

Royal Holloway, 3rd October 2026,
EVENT ENDED

Liverpool

17th October 2026.

Oxford

7th November 2026.
EVENT FULL

Exeter

14th November 2026.

Nottingham

14th November 2026.

Eastbourne

21st November 2026.
EVENT FULL

Cardiff

21st November 2026.

London

Imperial College 28th Nov 2026. EVENT FULL

Digital

5th December 2026.

Bristol

No Bristol event in 2026, but please sign up for Cardiff instead!

York

No York event scheduled for 2026.

The Rules of Entry

  1. Teams may consist of between 4 and 10 students, all between Years 10 and 13 (in England/Wales, or equivalent elsewhere in the United Kingdom).
  2. Each team must have a designated supervising adult (over the age of 18). This can be a teacher (in the case that a team’s affiliated organisation is a school) or a chosen parent/guardian. This person will be included in all correspondence with the team for safeguarding.
  3. Registration of a team using the provided form indicates permission has been given by a parent/guardian for a team member to participate.
  4. Only one team may be associated with an institution in order to give as many people the opportunity to get involved as possible. In order to enter as an unaffiliated team, no more than half of your team members may attend the same educational institution (e.g. a team of 10 may have 4 members from school A, 4 from school B, and 2 from school C, but may not have 6 from school A). If you are oversubscribed and interested in registering a second team, please contact registration@uksdc.org direct. Should additional space become available, interested parties will be contacted on a first-come, first-served basis.
  5. Students are expected to act in a professional and respectful manner when interacting with the other competitors and UKSDC/Venue staff at all times. UKSDC supervisors will be monitoring at all times and reserve the right to remove individual competitors or entire teams deemed to be violating this rule.

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