For Student Teams: Build Skills, Use Siemens Software and Earn a Digital Badge!

Student competitions give aspiring engineers something a classroom alone cannot provide: the opportunity to solve real engineering challenges as part of a team.

Whether designing a race car, developing a robotics system or tackling another complex engineering challenge, student team members gain practical experience in engineering, project management, collaboration and communication.

Siemens supports student teams with free access to professional engineering software, free training for Siemens solutions and learning opportunities designed specifically for competitions. Students can also have their practical competition experience recognized through the Real-World Student Competition: Student Team Member digital badge.

Prepare for your competition with the Expedite – Skills for Competitions Microcredential

Success in a student competition requires more than technical knowledge. Teams need to understand the challenge, organize their work, collaborate effectively, manage projects and turn ideas into solutions.

The Expedite – Skills for Competitions microcredential from Siemens is designed to help students build the teamwork, project and problem-solving capabilities needed for engineering competitions.

This free learning experience provides practical guidance for students preparing for engineering competitions and challenges. It helps students develop capabilities they can apply during the competition and later in their careers.

Students learn how to approach engineering challenges, work effectively as part of a team and translate their competition experience into skills they can demonstrate to future employers.

Explore the free Expedite – Skills for Competitions microcredential

Build your Siemens software skills with free training

In addition to competition-focused learning, students can access free academic training for Siemens solutions.

These training resources help students build practical product knowledge and develop the software skills needed to use Siemens technologies effectively in their competition projects

Whether your team is working with design, simulation, manufacturing or other Siemens engineering solutions, the training catalog helps you strengthen your technical capabilities while applying them directly to a real engineering project.

Explore free Siemens academic training

Turn your student competition experience into a verifiable achievement

Participating in a student competition provides experience that goes far beyond traditional classroom learning.

The Siemens Real-World Student Competition: Student Team Member digital badge recognizes students who have gained practical engineering experience through active participation in a student competition team using Siemens software.

Once awarded through Credly, students can share the badge on LinkedIn and other professional profiles, providing a verifiable record of their student competition experience.

Explore the Student Team Member badge on Credly

Who can earn the Student Team Member badge?

The badge is intended for students who:

• Are active contributors to a student competition team that uses Siemens software and have participated for at least one full competition season
• Have their participation confirmed by a team captain, faculty advisor or another team representative

The badge recognizes the practical experience gained through participating in a student competition, not simply a team’s final ranking.

Designing, testing, improving, managing deadlines, collaborating across disciplines and responding to setbacks are all part of the real-world engineering experience that student competitions provide.

If your team is using Siemens software and you would like to learn more about the Student Team Member badge or how to request it, contact martin.koczmann@siemens.com.

Why does this experience matter?

Employers are looking for more than academic knowledge. They need graduates who can apply what they know, collaborate effectively and work on complex problems in real-world environments.

Student competitions give students an opportunity to develop and demonstrate these capabilities before entering the workforce.

By combining hands-on competition experience with professional Siemens software, free solution training and targeted learning through Expedite – Skills for Competitions, students can connect academic learning with real-world engineering practice.

The Siemens Student Team Member badge then provides a way to make that experience visible and verifiable as part of a student’s professional profile.

Ready to get started?

Siemens provides student competition teams with resources that support them throughout their competition journey:

LEARN
Build teamwork, project and problem-solving capabilities with Expedite – Skills for Competitions.
Explore Expedite – Skills for Competitions

TRAIN
Develop the technical skills to use Siemens solutions effectively in your competition project with free academic software training.

Explore free Siemens academic training

APPLY
Get free access to professional Siemens engineering software for your student competition team through the Siemens Grant Application Form.

Apply for Siemens software through the Grant Application Form

GET RECOGNIZED
After participating in a full competition season as part of a student team using Siemens software, make your experience visible with the Siemens Student Team Member digital badge.

Explore the Student Team Member badge or contact martin.koczmann@siemens.com to learn how to request it.

Supporting student teams with Siemens technology

Siemens supports student competition teams with free access to professional engineering software, helping students apply industry technologies to real-world engineering challenges.

Student teams interested in accessing Siemens software can apply through the Siemens Grant Application Form.

Together, these resources help students learn new capabilities, apply them in a real engineering project and demonstrate that experience to future employers.