Welcome to #TECHOGNITION
Today is #TECHOGNITION day! To take part...
- Take a photo of yourself and/or technician colleagues performing an interesting, spectacular or routine (but genuine) technician task.
- Upload your photos to this website where you will have the chance to enter our prize draw. Your photos will appear on the Event Gallery page. You can upload as many photos as you like during the day between 8am and 6pm when the uploads will close. Only photos uploaded to this website will be entered into our prize draw. Although we encourage uploads to social media too, these are not entered into our prize draw.
- Upload your pictures to X (Twitter), Instagram and other social media platforms using the #TECHOGNITION hashtag with a brief explanation of what you are doing in the photo. We will be sharing as many of these as we can.
- Share and like #TECHOGNITION posts on social media.
- Follow our @techognitionUK X (Twitter) account and our official Bluesky account for further news and updates.
#TECHOGNITION is a national celebration of technical support staff, recognising the importance of their essential roles in school and college education.
Over the last decade there have been several national surveys which have had one significant outcome - that school leaders, the government and the wider public do not fully understand the role of technical staff in schools and do not fully recognise their important contribution to education.
We feel that without recognition and a full understanding of the role by school leaders, the issues surrounding the poor pay and conditions that many technicians work under cannot be suitably addressed.
With this in mind, Preproom.org in conjunction with UNISON, Technical Champions, Philip Harris, Curie Scientific, and SLS Select Education bring you the ninth annual #TECHOGNITION event on Friday 13th March 2026.
Click here to find out how to take part
This one-day event celebrates the work of school and FE college technicians with the aim of publicly showcasing their vast range of skills and the variety of tasks that these jobs entail.
During the event we encourage technical staff in UK schools and colleges to upload photos of themselves or their colleagues performing any one of the vast and varied jobs they do to this website and to social media alongside the hashtag #TECHOGNITION
We are giving away some great prizes at random for some of those uploading photos to this website during the event.
Technicians are highly skilled, very experienced and essential members of school and college staff whose value is often not fully appreciated. Together we can raise the profile of this essential role.
Latest Photos
Working with students. - from TSA (Science Technician)
13/03/2026 18:00
Making Props for the school production. Making it up as I go and making it work! Under pressure. - from Millie (Art and Design Technician)
13/03/2026 17:59
Making resources and gathering materials to learn crepe paper flower making for upcoming workshops. - from Millie (Art and Design Technician)
13/03/2026 17:58
