by S4TP | Jul 14, 2020 | Big Ideas Blog
We are pleased to announce the 12 National Finalists for the Solutions for the Planet Big Ideas Competition 2020. Between September 2019 and February 2020, more than 3800 young people across the UK started thinking about what issues mattered most to them. In teams...
by Jen | Jun 25, 2020 | Big Ideas Blog
Today is not what it could have been, but perhaps it’s something better?! Thursday 25 June 2020 was the planned date for the Big Ideas Competition 2020 National Final at the Palace of Westminster. The culmination of a years worth of work for students, teachers,...
by S4TP | May 6, 2020 | Big Ideas Blog
What is a ‘Virtual Big Ideas Competition’? A good question, and one that none of us knew the answer to two weeks ago, or even imagined a month ago, but on Monday the 4th of May, like many of the seeds in my greenhouse, the Virtual Big Ideas Competition burst into...
by Jen | May 5, 2020 | Big Ideas Blog
When I arrived back from my three week holiday at the beginning of March I had a strong feeling that the business I would be leading over the next few months was going to be a very different business to the one I left. There was talk of schools closing, distancing...
by S4TP | Mar 9, 2020 | Big Ideas Blog
BSA CREST Awards and Solutions for the Planet Since 2015, over 1250 young people have been awarded a CREST Bronze Award for making it to a regional final in the Big Ideas Competition. Last year, nearly 2000 young people on the Big Ideas programme also received their...
by S4TP | Feb 20, 2020 | Big Ideas Blog
Last Wednesday (12th February) I attended IGEM’s London Showcase and Lion’s Lair event with special guests Energy Gym, a team of two 13-year-old boys, Jack and Oliver from Priory School, Southsea. They were finalists in the 2019 Big Ideas Competition, and had been...
