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Engineering Minds is running every year the GreenSTEM Festival - Our Planet, an inspirational event funded in 2020 by the UK Science festival Network and ARM.

Through this event we aim to empower children and families from South- East London to understand how our actions impact on the future of Earth, how we can live more sustainably and environmentally responsible, and how Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths can help us to protect our Planet.

The Festival supports the UK Clean Growth Strategy , focusing on Improving Our Homes, Delivering Clean, Smart, Flexible Power and Enhancing the Benefits and Value of Our Natural Resources.

Children and families experience hands-on activities that illustrate how engineering and science can safeguard our Earth, and will encourage them to think about how can they lower their carbon footprint.

We aim to offer children, families and schools from South-East London the opportunity to receive information and identify local organisations that can continue to offer Green STEM opportunities.

2021 - Online GreenSTEM Festival

Our team is working hard to bring the opportunities offered by the GreenSTEM Festival safely to your home - please visit this page soon for updates.

2020 - GreenSTEM Festival

The first edition of GreenSTEM Festival took place in February 2020, in partnership with University of Greenwich.

The event was funded by ARM, the leading technology provider of processor IP, and UK Science Festival Network.

Thank you for all your support!

Over 200 families have attended the event and enjoyed taking part in many exciting workshops.

Our visitors' feedback convinced us to transform this into an annual event to inspire and empower South-East London communities to live more sustainably.

We hosted an exhibition for the First LEGO League, an International Robotic event organised in the UK by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Seven teams of talented young engineers met the assessors and presented their work - Boom Town was the perfect theme for 2020.

Engineering Minds' team wants to thank all our partners who helped us created an empowering event.

- Institution of Engineering and Technology

- University of Greenwich

- Greenwich Maths Centre

- Creative Nature

- Eco Around

- WasteAid

- London Innovation Society

- Eltham Enviros

- Sand Stories

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2020 -

University of Greenwich

Ongoing all day

Creative Nature

Creating a large sculptural willow form in a day.

Be part of a team that builds together, creating an impressive woven form that requires thousands of individual sticks to be woven together

Ongoing all day

Greenwich Maths Centre

Interactive mathematical demonstrations

Ongoing all day

Engineering Minds

Stop Motion Animation workshops.

Make your own movie by using Lego bricks and waste materials to raise awareness on the environment and its issues

Ongoing all day

Engineering Minds

Lego Robotics workshop.

Build a sea cleaner, a recycling truck and many more robots using Lego bricks, Smart Hubs and sensors

10.15 - 11.00 13.00 - 16.00

Eco Around

Re-growth from food waste and learn composting.

Practical gardening workshop and creation of a composting jar.

2020- University of Greenwich

12.00 - 13.00 13.15 -14.15

Designer Ikuko Kato

Have you ever wondered what happens to the plastic bottles you throw away? During this workshop, parents and children will have fun playing with leftover bottles and make them useful for other purposes. At the same time we will talk about how plastic pollutes our planet and what we can do to reuse, reduce and recycle.

13.00 - 16.00

Eltham Enviros

Eltham Enviros are a community action group seeking to reduce our community's negative impact on the planet and nurture positive eco-practice. We aim to bring people together to increase our knowledge and awareness of eco-issues; empower ourselves and others to take eco-action and work with local businesses and The Royal Borough of Greenwich Council to develop an enabling environment for positive eco-practice.

Ongoing all day

IET - Institution of Engineering and Technology

Resources

Room A

11.00 - 13.00

FIRST® LEGO® League - The BoomTown Build

Pre-booked

10 teams of Young Engineers passioned by LEGO Robotics will showcase their work on building a sustainble town.

14.00 - 14.30

WasteAid

What we do and challenges we face. Together with our partners, we make useful products from waste to build a cleaner and healthier future.

Room B

10.30 - 11.00

WasteAid

What we do and challenges we face. Together with our partners, we make useful products from waste to build a cleaner and healthier future.

11.15 - 12.15 13.15 - 14.15

London Innovation Society

Super-powered Organisms: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for a Sustainable Planet.

Design your own GMO to solve human and nature’s problems.

14.45 - 15.45

Sand Stories

Beyond the beach – a closer look at the role of sand in our daily lives.

Introduction to what the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has termed ‘one of the major sustainability challenges of the 21st century’. We will explore the importance of sand in our daily lives and why we should look for alternatives to sand.