Having run regional launch events in Liverpool, Sunderland and Ironbridge, back in 2018 we held our first in London in King’s Cross and for good reason.
A few years prior the London Borough of Camden had declared itself a STEAM Borough, primarily to inspire it schools and identify and nuture career pathways for its young people into the many creative and hi tech businesses in the borough including Google, Facebook, Francis Crick Institute, Welcome Trust, etc - in fact the square mile around King’s Cross has the highest concentration of ‘knoweldge based’ businesses and organisations in the world.
Take a look at the film of our #ArtConnects event, itself sponsored by Google and was a collaboration with schools in the area.
ACLAND BURGHLEY SCHOOL - WHERE CREATIVITY LIVES
One school in Camden that embodies the STEAM dream is Acland Burghely School which has had a reputation going back decades for offering a broad and balanced curriculum, which has feircely defended its arts provision and has an outstadning reputation for the creative subjects it offers.
We’ve been pleased to support their annual STEAM Day for the last three years, where th epark the time table and offer students a range of creative sessions and talks,
Event last year in lock down we liev streamed an assembly and workshops from a cardboard Glasto Pyramid stage.
This year we were asked to live stream an opening assembly to the school via Zoom, run two workshops and launch a dynamite rocket.
Seemed like a no brainer job for our cardboard Mars base camp and one of our #MissionToMars22 Tour sessions.
Opening assembly
Here’s the opening assembly we prepared.
Interview BBC London
it really was a fantastic day.
Just after it had all wrapped up, the rocket launched, I was delighted to chat with Jumoke Fashola on BBC Radio London.
Here’s a short film of the day and the chat wtih Jumoke.