Showfloor

Explore engineering in Virtual Reality and help Mike the alien get back to his parents in space!

The wildest, weirdest, most delicious STEM show on earth!

How does technology support a 21st century railway?

Explore WaterAid's technologies while playing MineCraft!

Teams must work fast and take decisive actions to stop the spread of a killer virus!

Experience super-sensory, delicious fruity clouds at The Cloud Factory!

Bring your imagination to life. Building is just the beginning!

At The Big Bang Fair we understand how important maths will be in the future, especially with the advances in digital technology...

Board the Crime Scene Bus for hands-on Forensic activities

Put yourselves to the test against some of the world's most highly adapted species!

The return of the gunge man a chance to get your hands inside a mock-up of an abdomen and see what you can find.

Digital Classroom solutions are designed to enhance the teaching & learning experience for students.

Build a robot and race it on our custom-built track!

Take the Technicians Make It Happen challenge and see if you've got the skills needed to beat our technicians at their own game!

Fascinating mathematical puzzles that come in all shapes and sizes...

We have things that fly, machines that levitate and organisms that skulk on forest floors

Do you Dare to be Different? Come and show us how!

Try your hand at live insect handling, scientific specimens under the microscope and interactive games.

See inside your body and see your organs and blood vessels on a screen!

Can you create a spinner to take on our amazing wind tunnel?

Discover Bright Energy Ideas at the Make the Future stand

The world's first 3D Printer for Gummy Candy

1 scientist, 1 briefcase and 1 bizarre phenomenom.

Expect the Unexpected!

Are you an Energy Superhero?

Enter our challenge to navigate out of the maze in the fastest time.

Siemens' Future Makers Zone will allow budding engineers & scientists to experience STEM in action!

What has friction got to do with doing the "moonwalk" find out with FLUX Moving Science!

Discover the science of hovercraft with STEMtastic and make your own your own to take home!

How can engineers solve the challenges of the 21st Century? Talent 2030 finalists will tell you how!

Find out about the amazing opportunities available from Rotary to challenge and enthuse young people in STEM subjects.

Visit the National Grid stand for your chance to win £100!

Discover theatrical secrets where science and technology deliver the answer

So how is electricity generated in our power stations.

Visit our stand to discover the latest innovations in engineering and meet the engineers behind them, have a go at controlling a robot or get involved in some engineering of your own!

Journey through space, explore volcanoes or pilot your own plane!

Learn the skills. Save a life. Have you got what it takes?

Leonardo technology – Putting the fun into engineering

Various STEM based activities that really get you thinking!

Get creative and experience exciting real-life challenges and virtual worlds

Buzz-Boing-Clank-Parp-Twang-Bang-BOOOM!! Make some seriously strange noise on the Noisy Toys Acousatron: mechanised instruments.

The Ultimate Selfie! Get 3D scanned in one of the UK's largest scanning rigs.

Join us to play pass-the-robot with our LEGO MINDSTORM EV3 robot!

Come along and have a go at our Dice puzzle .

Dangerous equations...or how to use the Laws of Physics to avoid probable death!

Come and see real world science!

Battle against the clock to stop the flood

How do you make a chimpanzee yawn? Can you fake a laugh? What on earth has talking got to do with a whoopee cushion?

Interactive fun engineering; acoustics and robotics from the University of Salford.

Does science really solve crime? - come and discover how investigations really happen in the 21st Century.

Be The Goalie is a riotous mashup of table football and camera-based motion detection, pitting life sized agility against pure, bar-honed foosball skills.

Visit our stand to discover more about the future of health care.

Create and race your own train and explore the future you on our stand.

Bikes, Bubbles and Blustering Wind Turbines inspiring engineers everywhere!

Learn the maths behind the magic!

Try being a medical engineer, use light to measure your brain activity and see through your hand!

Can you use your knowledge of science to earn you an official Guinness World Records title?

Make your own medicine; extract active ingredients; and get stuck into chocolate.

Discover a career in optometry or audiology and start seeing things differently with Specsavers.

Find out what happens when we put your scientific findings into action and science meets dance!

Explore how scientists use STEM to help the body heal itself.

"Motorways of the Future" - what will they look like?

Learn about radioactivity and how useful it can be.

Game On: an entirely interactive science show about the science behind gaming.

Get active about all things radioactive.

Play music with lasers and help us build an orchestra!

Can you calculate where the ball will land? Our trajectories challenge could win you a prize!

Experience the UK's ultimate medical experience observe a real GI tract, observe a real brain and skull.

See what JCB do, touch real machines and build a JCB

Do you have what it takes to be a scientist or engineer in the Nuclear sector?

Ride our VR roller-coaster and see if you can collect the most tokens!

Save Civil City! Help our super engineers protect us from the forces of nature and shape our world.

Ask us for details on how you could win a family ticket to the Harry Potter tour or an I-Pad mini 4!

Design a miniature Lego furniture factory & learn how operational research makes things better.

Draw a Radio Tag and see if yours is best.

Can you explain why the science tricks work?

Have you ever played with a LEGO MINSDTORM robot before? Come and learn how you can program them to do what you want it to!

Build your own electronic gadget to take home with you!

Fake blood, scanners, an ambulance and snot. Health Careers has it all!

A range of hands-on activities highlighting cutting edge medical research

e-Bug, operated by Public Health England, is an exciting, fun and free health education resource for teachers and school aged children.

Take part in our interactive STEM activities, build a model of our Trent gas turbine and join the Shadow Works STARRSHIP journey.

Become a Digital Explorer to unleash your potential!

Join us on our stand and interact with our giant LED display, discover how our Pi-powered robots are programmed and have a go yourself!

Come to the Biology Big Top to learn about some of biology’s big challenges.

Come and race the world's fastest athletes....

Criminals have targeted a research site causing thousands of pounds worth of damage, can you solve the crime?

What does it take to safety operate and decommission one of the world's most complex nuclear sites?

Food, exercise and apps to look after your body

Use a real mini supercomputer to predict weather and design aeroplanes!

Play with VR, crack our code, drive on our simulator!

Visit the Cracking Ideas stand from the Intellectual Property Office and try your hand at our star attraction The Karaoke Shower!

Sit in a Red Arrows Hawk, experience a VR flight, explore the inside of a jet engine and much more!