The RSA Pupil Design Awardsis a free, national design award programme for secondary school and sixth-form pupils aged 11-17.

Participants are encouraged to use their creativity and imagination to tackle real challenges to enable people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.

This year represents a historic landmark for our celebrated design awards as we launch the 100th year of the Student Design Awards and 10th year of Pupil Desgin Awards.

For the past decade, these awards have nurtured participants’ design thinking skills to produce innovative, design-led solutions that address real-world social, environmental and commercial challenges. 

Key dates

2023

• 7 Sep: PDA briefs launched (register for a briefing session with the RSA team)
• 27 Nov - 8 Dec: Free teacher training sessions and workshops

2024

• 5 Feb - 25 Mar: Mentor visits
• 1 Mar: Submissions open
• 29 Apr: Submissions close
• 1 May - 31 May: Review period
• Jun: Schools commended and awards ceremony