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Jan 2024
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Mission: Responsible (Coming Soon)

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Your mission - should you decide to accept it - is to join Drs Shini Somara and Simon Clark as they harness their inner spies to explore how responsible engineering can build a better planet.

Is it time to stop buying and start repairing? How do we grow the food of the future? Are ready for the internet of skills?

Connect with a million other curious minds and sign up at designspark.com to start your own responsible engineering journey.

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