Let's jump start a conversation in your community around creativity in schools, business and society.

Let's collaborate on a screening of 'Most Likely To Succeed' - the Sundance nominated film that's helping school communities re-imagine what our children and their teachers are capable of doing.

And after the film, hold a discussion around the issues raised around educating our children for the fourth industrial revolution that is unfolding at the speed of light.

Click the image above to download an info pack on co-hosting your own evening with us.

We'll produce marketing materials like the flyer and poster shown above, handle ticketing and make a promo trailer like the one you can see here by clicking the image below.

To get a date in the diary, click here.

Screening across the uk

We've now held screenings across the country:

• St Marylebone School, London

• Hadley Learning Community, Telford

• Institute of Imagination, London

• Festival of Education Fringe, Berkshire

• TEDxEducation, Norwich

• Millennium Primary, Greenwich

A TYPICAL EVENING...

One of our community screenings was held in a wonderful school in Hackney, a very challenged community in London and presented in partnership with leading education newspaper Schools Week, The UK's leading parenting community at NetMums and visionary educators Amaya Trust and cultural leaders onedotzero. 

Here's a film of the evening - an introduction by Nick Corston of STEAM Co. and summary of the panel debate.

Here's a film of the whole discussion after the screening with our panel that evening:

• Laura McInerney : ‘Policy Nerd’
  Editor, Schools Week

• Alison Kriel : Children’s Champion’
  Head Teacher, Northwold School/Amaya Trust

• Anne Marie O’Leary : ‘Mum’s mum’
  Editor in Chief Netmums

• Dominic Wilcox : 'Inspirator'
  Artist and Inventor

• Sophie Walter : ‘Creative Mum’
  MD, onedotzero

• John Williams : ‘Innovation Consultant’
  Author, #ScrewWorkBreakFree

• Madeleine Holt : ‘Education Campaigner’
  More Than A Score presenter

Here's a podcast of the introduction and whole discussion.

And below, a few photos from the evening.

Movie Trailer

Below is the official trailer for the movie

Building on great work

Speaking about the event, Nick Corston, co-founder of STEAM Co said:

“Amazing work is being done for our children in our schools across the country by amazing people. These teachers apply their professional skills, dedication and sheer hard work, often in association where possible with their community of carers*, creatives and local and national businesses, via any of the plethora of UK wide organisations from Code Club to Rotary, Saturday Club to STEAM Co.

But the education system they work within was designed over a hundred years ago and a lot has changed. Our children certainly have. This evening gives us a chance to stop and think about it.

To engage and florurish in tomorrow's world, our young people need to be encouraged to create, collaborate and innovate. 

In his no 1 TED talk, that has had over 300 million viewings, Sir Ken Robinson who also features in this film, says that "creativity is now as important as literacy". He spoke in a free talk at the BETT education exhibition in London the day after the screening which made this evening the perfect warm up!

I very much emjoyed watching the film with carers, creatives, teachers, headteachers, governors, employers, academics and local government representatives, and hearing what they had to say about the future of education in the UK."

* Carers: people who care for/about children and all our futures. They may be parents, guardians, pre-child, not having children, empty-nesters, creatives, technologists, secondary/higher education students, etc, etc.

Tickets

STEAM Co. is a non-profit community interest company and covered screening costs through donations for tickets and made tickets available to 'unwaged but engaged' carers. 

TYPICAL EVENT Timings

6:30 Arrival and talking to strangers

7:00 Introduction

7:15 Film starts

8:45 Discussion

9:30 Event ends. Disperse to local pub/cafe.

Film synopsis

MLTS explores compelling new approaches that aim to revolutionise teaching as we know it. After seeing this film, the way you think about “school” will never be the same.

Over a century ago, education underwent a dramatic transformation as the iconic one-room schoolhouse evolved into an effective system that produced an unmatched workforce tailored for the 20th Century. As the world economy shifts and traditional white-collar jobs begin to disappear, that same system remains intact, producing potentially chronic levels of unemployment among graduates in the 21st Century.

The film follows students into the classrooms of High Tech High, an innovative new school in San Diego. There, over the course of a school year, two groups of ninth graders take on ambitious, project-based challenges that promote critical skills.

MLTS points to a transformation in learning that may hold the key to success for millions of our youth – and our nation – as we grapple with the ramifications of rapid advances in technology, automation and growing levels of income inequality.

INTRODUCTION

We can't think of a better to kick off an evening talking about educating our children for a world that's changed than hearing from someone who left school only a year or so ago and who now runs a multi-million pound engineering business:

Josh Walman - ‘Teenage Entrepreneur’ and CEO, RPD

After being inspired by Robowars, by the age of 19, just two years ago, Josh Valman had built a global manufacturing company, valued at more than £1m. Today, his company outsources research and development to global centres of innovation excellence, boasts 96 corporate clients including Unilever, Vodafone and Heineken and he’s done two TED talks.

When he was 13, Josh sent his life savings of £500 to China to have his drawings turned into real components. “They were machined from scratch to my specifications,” he says. “I built my first robot and haven’t looked back since.”

Discussion

This film raised many questions and issues. To capture those we welcomed contributions from our audience in a discussion, which were delighted was chaired by the editor of Schools Week newspaper and featured views from across education, industry and community.

Laura McInerney - ‘Policy Nerd’ and Editor, Schools Week

Having taught in East London for six years, Laura is now Editor of leading education newspaper Schools Week and a regular columnist for The Guardian.

She says her main specialism is in “looking carefully at government policies, clearing away the politico-bullcrap and rhetoric, and explaining exactly how they will impact teachers, pupils, parents and the wider school community”.

Thank yous

STEAM Co. is indebted to our all supporters who believe in the power of creativity to engage children, innovate business and connect communities.

We're particularly grateful to our media partners, the leading education newspaper Schools Week and top parenting site Netmums, the Amaya Trust for collaborating with us on this event, onedotzero for spreading the word and the distributors for making the film available to us at a nominal screening fee.