
Event
The Big Bang Fair 2025
Spark curiosity and challenge your students’ perceptions at the UK’s biggest celebration of STEM for young people!
- Ages 11 to 14
- Offsite
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- NEC, Birmingham
- NEC, Birmingham
- Half a day
- Free
Inspire your students with our brilliant in-school, online and offsite experiences.
Spark curiosity and challenge your students’ perceptions at the UK’s biggest celebration of STEM for young people!
Biomimicry - How nature inspires engineers and scientists to help us humans.
Student-led Climate Action Clubs build skills and enable students to take a solutions-based approach in their school or community.
Support your students in conducting a water-based research project for a chance to win a trip to World Water Week in Stockholm!
Students work in teams to set up virtual racing cars and then compete against each other in a Formula 1 Grand Prix simulation.
Step into the exciting world of Siemens Energy, where innovation meets the power that drives our everyday lives!
Inspire 11-14 year-olds to think as engineers, finding solutions to real-world problems and challenges using robotics.
Develop your students' coding, maths, and problem-solving skills in these fun workshops!
Enginuity brings you Skills Miner Aerospace, built in Minecraft to introduce 11-14 year olds to roles and skills required in engineering.
Discover your inner vertical farmer and see how your ideas can make a difference to the future of food.
Inspire the next generation of engineers to solve sustainability challenges in the home.
Code an early warning system to help children understand the importance of mitigating the effects of natural hazards with the micro:bit.
Join the Met Office Sprint to explore data relationships and learn how experts use data to understand weather impacts.
Code a micro:bit to control a small buggy, develop that code to respond to a remote control and then drive them into the battle arena!
Learn about the chocolate-making process and the technology involved in this hands-on STEM experience for school students.
Take your learning outside and discover how engineers develop strength in structures from domes to bridges to teepees and tarp shelters
Discover and explore what it’s like to be a chemical engineer working in different industries.
Join IChemE as a Process Design Engineer, getting to grips with energy engineering.
A STEM and enterprise programme focused on sustainability and youth empowerment - over 33,000 students nationwide have benefitted so far!
Students generate electrical energy, and are then given it back in the form of food!
Students build, problem solve, test and race a miniature electric car!
I’m a Computer Scientist is a student-led, online enrichment activity to connect students with people working in a diverse range of computer science roles
I’m a Mathematician is a student-led, online enrichment activity that connects students with people working in a diverse range of STEM roles
Learn to code your own Lego robot with Drax's Community and Education team. Available to schools near Drax Power Station.
LEGO Robotics challenge activities with robots provided by BJPCE Limited. Themes include space, the environment, and polar exploration.
Scientific Sue and her wizard apprentices recreate magical illusions by harnessing the unseen powers of gravity, magnetism, and electricity.
Join Scientific Sue's quest to capture and train dragons, exploring flight, fire types, and engineering wonders in an innovative show!
Physics Mentoring works to increase the number of non-males taking Physics post-16 by six weeks mentoring with trained university students.
These inspiring projects, developed by the British Science Association, immerse students in real research, allowing them to contribute something new to the scientific community or to a particular field of study.
An engaging selection of enquiry-led STEM projects, developed by the British Science Association, designed to stretch and enrich, giving students experience of the scientific process.
Fun and engaging short STEM project ideas. Developed by the British Science Association, CREST Bronze projects give students a taste of what it’s like to be a scientist or engineer in the real world.
Circuit Street is an interactive workshop run by UK Power Networks, that showcases the journey of electricity.
A fun introduction to STEM project work! Developed by the British Science Association, students complete either a single activity or a series of linked challenges with clear real-world contexts.
Visit Drax Power Station and immerse your students in the fascinating world of energy generation.
A 7-session introductory computing course that supports students in creating a community focused, climate action app prototype.
Are your students interested in engineering, design or project management? Let them step into the world of AtkinsRéalis through this WEX programme to discover the early careers options available to them!
KS3 students will learn what AI is, why it makes mistakes and how to use it responsibly in this 90-minute workshop.
A year-long programme empowering teams to build a racing kart, learn the associated STEM theory and race against competing schools.
Enspire City - where students learn how engineers and STEM can change our world in a free to use online cityscape.
'We Make Our Future' is a new interactive, educational and entertaining science show for the next generation of engineers!
Students are introduced to modern uses of robotics and must then use a Sphero robot to rescue an injured person in a disaster zone!
Students must work in teams to build a hurricane or earthquake proof building while keeping to budget!
Build a micro greenhouse, code a micro:bit to monitor and control conditions, and grow microgreens – an insight into sustainable farming.
This practical engineering workshop demonstrates how pneumatic and hydraulic systems are used including making a hoist a hydraulic game!
Hands-on learning about sustainable electricity generation as part of the UK energy security.
Introduction 2 Engineering (i2E) stimulates student's interest in STEM subjects through hands-on, practical activities.
Introduction 2 Engineering (i2E) stimulates student's interest in STEM subjects through hands-on, practical activities.
Student teams design and model Sports Arenas to house multiple sports at a major sporting event.
Teams of students use K'Nex to learn the concepts of bridge design. Then design and model their own solution to a set problem.
'When will I ever use this in real-life?' Espire's workshops answer this with hands-on motorsport engineering.
I’m a Scientist is a student-led, online enrichment activity connecting students with people working in a diverse range of roles in STEM.
The UK’s most epic STEM enrichment programme for young people*. We're not building robots, we're building the future.
*as voted by robots
A masterclass in engineering design: how to design world beating products by breaking complex products into simple components.
Discover Energy with Megawatt! Megawatt combines hands-on resources and an engaging card game to teach about energy, climate change, and sustainability.
Control a real robotic rover over a realistic model Martian landscape over Zoom!
Connect, Create, Belong is an online Physics Club which provides a safe space for young people to expand their knowledge of physics.
Get involved in the world's largest robotics competition and bring your students' STEM skills to life!
Get involved in the world's largest robotics competition and bring your students' STEM skills to life!
Students learn how to code Sphero robots whilst learning about engineering and pathways to higher education in a super engaging way!