The online digital awards · Hosted by Engagedu
Celebrating young digital creators across the UK
Has a pupil made something brilliant with technology? Teachers can submit it any time of year. The best work is awarded a TechStar: a certificate for the pupil and a digital trophy for your school’s online trophy cabinet.
How it works
Open all year, for every pupil
TechStars are open all year: submit great digital work whenever it happens. Our seasonal trophies and competitions have their own closing dates, shown on each one.
Make something brilliant
Digital art, a film or animation, music, a game, a 3D world, a website or anything else made with technology.
A teacher submits it
Using the form below: what it is, the software, the subject, the skills and why it deserves a TechStar. It’s free.
We review it
Our Education Technology team looks at every piece of work that comes in.
Awarded a TechStar
Work we award a TechStar gets a certificate to download and a digital trophy in the school’s online trophy cabinet, which schools can show on their own website.
The showcase
Our TechStars
Work by pupils that has been awarded a TechStar.
TechStarSubmit work
Is there a TechStar in your school?
Send us a piece of digital work you think deserves to be recognised: pictures, audio, video, presentations, Scratch or Minecraft files, or a link to the work.
Awarded a TechStar
Your pupil has been awarded a TechStar. What next?
Congratulations! Here’s how to celebrate it.
Download the certificate
Use the “Download the certificate” link in the email we sent you. Add the pupil’s full name on that page, then download the PDF. We don’t keep the name.
See your digital trophy
If your school works with us, the digital trophy appears in your school’s online trophy cabinet in the school portal, under TechStars. The portal opens in January 2027.
Show it on your website
On the TechStars page in the portal, copy the embed code to add your trophy cabinet to your school website.
Lost your link?
Email [email protected] with your school and the title of the work, and we’ll send it again.
Why get involved?
Inspire. Create. Celebrate.
Free
Open to every pupil at every UK school, all year round.
Any kind of digital work
From animation and artwork to film-making, music and coding.
National recognition
TechStars are proudly shown in our online showcase.
A digital trophy cabinet
Every TechStar adds a digital trophy to your school’s online trophy cabinet, ready to show on your website, alongside a certificate for the pupil.
So… do you have a TechStar in your school?
Submit pupils’ work today and give them the chance to shine bright online.