The Competitions - How to get involved?
Come and celebrate your school science and engineering projects and show your work to over 1,500 visitors at this prestigious event. The Big Bang London offers students the chance to present science and engineering projects they have been working on in school. This can be a project created in lessons or as part of science, engineering or maths clubs. Or it can be an individual student’s project.
ANY school project focusing on science, technology, engineering or mathematics is eligible to be presented at The Big Bang London.
If you have a school STEM club then join our Club Showcase at The Big Bang London where you can display your club’s work, share ideas with other schools and get feedback from businesses and industry representatives viewing the displays.
If you want to get competitive at The Big Bang London, pupils (both teams and individual students) can enter any STEM project work to be judged at the Big Bang London. Commended projects from 13 July could win a place to exhibit at the prestigious national competition at The Big Bang March 2011, where winning projects can win an individual prize of £2,000.
The National Science and Engineering Competition
This is open to any school with a science or engineering project to present. To enter all you need to do is register as a Student Competitor at www.thebigbang.co.uk/london. We will give you a table and a poster board so that you can present your project with posters, photos and objects. You need to make your project interactive so visitors to your display get a real feel for our work. Visit the website here.
CREST Awards
If you are already registered with CREST then enter your project to compete at The Big Bang London.
For more details contact your local CREST coordinator or visit the website here.
Young Engineers
Students can work, either as a team or individually, to use their imagination to create, design, develop and manufacture an original idea for a commercially viable device or system that could be an everyday task, a social need or a brilliant innovation. Students presenting their project at The Big Bang London could win a place at the national Young Engineer for Britain competition. To enter you to need to first register with Young Engineers by visiting the webiste here.
Entry details
All projects need to be registered by 11 June. Each school can enter as many projects/individual competitors as they want.
All competitions are open to students aged 11- 19 competing individually or in teams of up to 4 students.
Displays
Every project at The Big Bang London will be given a 60cm x 60cm table and a 1.5m wide poster board. The aim is to create an interactive display that explains and demonstrates your project using photos, posters and objects.
If you are presenting a project you will need to have your display ready for 9am on 13 July. You can put your display up either during the day on 12 July or from 7.30am on 13 July. The display will need to be manned by students till 4pm so that delegates coming in either the morning or the afternoon can view your project.
Judging
A team of representatives from business, industry and universities will view all projects and offer feedback to the students. If your project is entered into one of the competitions then it will be judged and the commended and winning projects will be announced during the day.
Registration
If you would like to display your school’s work at The Big Bang London then please register online at www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/london. If you want to join the Club Showcase then register go to ‘Register as a competitor’ and choose ‘STEM Club’and select what type of club you are. If you want to enter one of the competitions go to ‘Register as a competitor’ and choose ‘Student Competitor’, then select which competition you want to enter.
You can register as the ‘Lead Contact’ (whether or not you are attending). You will then receive an email confirmation; this email will contain a link to your registration. Please use this link to revisit and update your registration with the names of the students you are bringing as you confirm your entry.
Once you have registered you will receive more details about creating your display.
Contact
If you have any queries please contact the event coordinator, Nicola Hern on nicola@herncommunications.co.uk or 07980 098652.
Date Published: June 02, 2010