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Inspire your students to get creative and build a STEM project in easy step-by-steps using The Big Bang Challenge!
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The Big Bang Challenge is an inspiring project resource, for students aged 11 to 18 of all abilities, to guide them through the stages of STEM project work.
Teachers can use this as part of a STEM Club or practical science lesson, and are encouraged to enter their students' projects into The Big Bang Competition.
Whether they have 1 hour, several days or even a few weeks to work on a project, there’s plenty for students to get stuck in with, and practise working like a STEM professional.
Along the way, teachers are provided with certificates and virtual badges to help celebrate their students' progress and recognise amazing STEM skills.
Each Big Bang Challenge focuses on a particular theme and asks young people questions, to inspire and encourage them to get creative.
There are now 7 Big Bang Challenges to get stuck into:
Young people can build on existing ideas to create their own unique project, coming up with solutions to real-world problems using STEM.
Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
Improve attainment and progress in STEM subjects
Develop engineering employability skills
Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering
The Gatsby benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance for schools across all of England and in some areas across the rest of the UK. This experience helps your school to reach the following benchmarks:
The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:
Planning - Setting goals and designing routes to achieve them
Creativity - Using imagination and generating new ideas
Leadership - Supporting, encouraging and motivating others to achieve a shared goal
Listening - Receiving, retaining and processing information
Problem solving - Finding solutions to challenges
Speaking - Transmitting information or ideas
Adapting - Overcoming challenges and setbacks to achieve goals
Teamwork - Working cooperatively with others to achieve a shared goal
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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.
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