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Activities and events
Big Bang Fair
The Academy is one of the
partner organisations of the
Big Bang
Fair. The Big Bang Fair is the UK’s biggest
science and engineering fair to celebrate the
achievement and excellence of young people through
the National Science and Engineering Competition,
while engaging and inspiring them with a wide range
of exhibits, activities, presentations and events.
Next years fair takes place in Manchester from the
11th to 13th March 2010.
Pestival
The Academy is supporting the Termite Pavilion and a number of related events from leading architects and engineers working on the project at this years
Pestival 2009. The Termite Pavilion is a spectacular walk in structure inspired by the Namibian termite mound to give an insight into the extraordinary architectural and engineering skills of one of Earth's oldest master builders.
Cheltenham science festival
From geo-engineering to the emergent technology synthetic biology, the Academy has supported and co-produced a number of events at the annual
Cheltenham Science Festival
Robotics vision conference
The UK’s first young people’s robotics Vision Conference was a pilot project run as partnership between the Academy,
Walking with Robots and the
London Engineering Project. The conference provided the participants, who were aged 16 and over, with the opportunity to explore advanced robotics research, have their views heard on how these new technologies could be used in the future and explore their potential impact on society. A report of the findings is available from
the Walking with Robots website (304KB)
Keeping an eye on……
The Academy partnered with the
Dana centre to develop and deliver a
sciencehorizons dialogue based event around surveillance technologies. The event was planned in conjunction with the launch of the Academy’s policy report entitled “Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance” (830KB)
Would like to meet the
Innovators
The Academy teamed up with the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation to bring together 15 engineers and 15 documentary makers in an unusual networking session entitled ‘Would Like to Meet the Innovators’. The event was held at the
BritDoc 2007 Festival, Oxford, and was organised in partnership with the British Computer Society, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
The aim of the event was to facilitate potential collaborations and valuable contacts between two creative yet radically different sectors who would not normally meet and act as a catalyst for future documentaries on engineering-related issues.
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