Digital Badge for Student Teams: Recognize Your Real-World Engineering Experience
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 around the world by providing free access to professional engineering software. Students using Siemens technology in their competition projects can also have their experience recognized with the Real-World Student Competition: Student Team Member digital badge.
Turn your student competition experience into a verifiable achievement
A digital badge provides a way to demonstrate an achievement online. It can be added to professional profiles such as LinkedIn, included on a resume or shared digitally with prospective employers.
The Siemens Student Team Member badge recognizes students who have gained practical engineering experience through active participation in a student competition team using Siemens software.
Badge earners have gained experience beyond traditional classroom learning by contributing to engineering projects in a competitive, collaborative environment.
Explore the Student Team Member badge on Credly
Who is eligible?
The badge is intended for students who:
- Are active contributors to a student competition team using Siemens software for at least one full season
- Have their participation confirmed by a team captain or another team leader
The badge recognizes the 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.
Why does it matter?
Employers are looking for more than academic knowledge. They want graduates who can apply what they know, collaborate effectively and work on complex problems in real-world environments.
Student competitions provide an opportunity to develop and demonstrate these capabilities before entering the workforce.
The Siemens Student Team Member badge gives students a verifiable way to highlight this experience and make it visible to prospective employers and their professional networks.
Showcase your achievement
Once awarded, the badge is issued digitally through Credly. Students can use their Credly profile to share the badge and highlight their student competition experience online.
For students who have invested significant time and effort in a competition team, the badge provides a lasting record of that commitment and practical experience.
Part of a student competition team using Siemens software? Explore the Student Team Member badge and find out how your real-world engineering experience can become part of your professional profile.
Siemens software for student teams
Siemens supports student competition teams with free access to professional engineering software, helping students apply industry technologies to real-world engineering challenges. Fill out this form here: www.siemens.com/plm/gaf
Through these projects, students can build practical experience with the same types of digital tools and workflows used across industry while developing the technical capabilities, collaboration skills and engineering mindset needed for their future careers.How do I submit names for a digital badge?
How do I submit names for a digital badge?
To consider your students for a digital badge, make an excel file containing the following columns:
Email-school/team-domain | Email-personal | First-name | Middle-name | Last-name | Date submitted | Country | State/Province | School-name | Team-name | Type-of-competition (e.g. Formula Student, EcoCAR…)
Example:
Please send this file to martin.koczmann@siemens.com with “# BADGE #” in the subject line. By submitting this list, all individuals are opting-in to receiving badge communications from Siemens and Credly, the badges administration platform we use.
