Ambic STEM Challenge 2026

Ambic are bespoke furniture manufacturers based in the North East of England. We have the capability to manufacture just about anything furniture-related and in 2022 we decided we wanted to give something back to the local community by launching a schools competition to design their own piece of educational furniture.

Online applications were invited from all north-east primary schools, with the winners decided by facebook engagement. The response was incredible! – with some posts attracting thousands of reactions, and one with a reach of over 125,000.

Our two winners are having their designs turned into a real piece of furniture at no cost to the schools and all our finalists were offered a full STEM day where the children were taught about manufacturing roles and processes and given a challenge to build a self supporting structure with limited materials.

All the schools who took part in the STEM days gave us some amazing feedback – this made the whole process truly rewarding for us and made us more determined to make the competition bigger and better every year.