Over the weekend of Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 June 2025, Big Ideas curated The Great Exhibition² Tent in partnership with Imperial at The Great Exhibition Road Festival. The tent marked the fifth year of The Great Exhibition² (GE²) Schools Programme, engaging 600 pupils...

London Wonder is funded by the Royal Commission of 1851 and is an outreach programme to inspire secondary school students in Barking and Dagenham to envision themselves in STEM careers.  This term, secondary schools took part in special workshops with Royal Commission...

Over the weekend of 6 and 7 June 2025, Big Ideas and the Royal Commission Award Holders returned to The Great Exhibition Road Festival (GERF) in South Kensington with their widely successful 1851der Tent. The 1851der Tent put a spotlight on three exhibits created by...

Young people travelled from opposite ends of the UK to attend the Rockets for All Winner’s Trip to Imperial Space Lab.  Glennifer High School from Scotland, and Brighton Aldridge Community Academy met at the Blackett Laboratory, the Physics building at Imperial which...

In celebration of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology we took a deep dive into the wonderful world of Quantum. Nearly 7000 students from across the UK took part in STEM with Wings: What’s next for Quantum? a Big Ideas programme funded by RAF Youth...

Engineering insight #1: you will work with your hands This week, two thousand young people in Luton and Bedfordshire took part in We Can Be: Engineers with Big Ideas and the RAF Youth and STEM programme. Everyone met our special guest, the Civil Aviation Authority’s...