Big Ideas

Our Stem with Wings event this week dives into how Space Weather affects us here on earth. Join us for a journey into deep space with Helen O’Brien – the engineer working a million miles from earth.
Details: www.big-ideas.org/stem-with-wi...

Take off with our Flight Path event on February 10 🛫

Introduce flight-focused career opportunities in London’s thriving aviation sector to your KS2/KS3 classes + join fun challenges to win an all-expenses-paid prize trip for your class.

Open to London schools: www.big-ideas.org/flight-path/

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday to meet the first British astronaut, Helen Sharman! Congratulations to Gleniffer High School & Brighton Aldridge Community Academy for winning the prize experience with Imperial Space Lab.
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Lots of insights at the Food in Women’s Prisons event with the #DoingPorridge team yesterday. Interesting to hear the potential food can have as a tool for transformation in prison settings. Thank you @ Maria Adams and @ Erin Powers for the invite, looking forward to seeing the toolkit in action!

Join us on Monday 17 March @ 2pm for a free 50 minute digital school workshop with Britain’s first astronaut Helen Sharman. Hear about her time in Space as an astronaut and ask her your questions! @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

For students aged 7+

Sign up here www.big-ideas.org/rockets-for-...

Big news! We’re one of the winners of Hubbub’s Eat It Up Fund 2025! 🥳 This grant will go to support our new project Clean Plate, looking to transform food waste in prisons. Read more here: www.big-ideas.org/innovative-f...

OK that's the deadline! We have submitted an application to
#STFC SPARKS Awards with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Centre for QuEST to mark the International Year of Quantum
#IYQ with schools. Read more about QuEST here www.imperial.ac.uk/academic-str...

Great to meet #Wrap this week and hear about the work they are doing to reduce waste and bring an end to throwaway culture. We did a food waste project with schools in Barking and Dagenham earlier in the year - keen to do more.
If you haven't heard of WRAP check out their website: www.wrap.ngo

@premierleagu.bsky.social Academy teams are packing their bags to head to the annual Christmas Truce tournament in Ypres. Three clubs have qualified by taking part in the Truce Education Challenge. Read more about this year's theme: Power of Pals. www.big-ideas.org/power-in-pal...

Hello Blue Sky people - great to join you here