For immediate release - 7 February 2025
The Big Bang Fair open for registration!
The UK’s largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people – the popular Big Bang Fair - is returning this summer and registration is now open!
Taking place from 17 to 19 June 2025 at the NEC in Birmingham, the free Fair will welcome students aged 10 to 13 from across the UK.
The annual Fair, which is run by EngineeringUK, is designed to ignite a passion for STEM and showcase the exciting career possibilities in these sectors. Over 20,000 young people aged 10-13 years-old attended The Big Bang Fair last year.
A diverse range of employers will come together at The Big Bang 2025 Fair to bring engineering, science and technology careers to life, giving young people the opportunity to meet STEM professionals and inspiring career panels. Young people can discover amazing science and engineering shows, workshops and hand-on activities. From coming face to face with snakes, lizards and tarantulas and learning about how animals have influenced humans to coding and flying drones, there are many exhibits to help young people find innovative, creative solutions to real world problems. Our research shows 80% of young people who attended The Big Bang Fair wanted to go on to do more STEM activities.
STEM engagement activities are vital not only for developing awareness and interest in STEM careers but to showcase the many different careers available as well as to help build a skilled and diverse future workforce.
Phillip McShane, Associate Director – Big Bang Programme at EngineeringUK, commented: “The Big Bang Fair is a brilliant opportunity for employers and professional engineering institutions and the education and careers community to help ignite a passion for STEM and inspire young people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in their sectors.
“It’s such a great event – and totally free – and there are still a few sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities available for employers to get involved.”
Also taking place at The Fair, will be the awards ceremony for the popular Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Competition. Winners will be announced, including the crowning of the prestigious Big Bang UK Young Engineer, UK Young Scientist and UK Young Technologist of the Year, supported by Siemens.
To find out more about exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities for The Big Bang Fair 2025 and The Big Bang Competition – email [email protected].
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The Big Bang Fair is a brilliant opportunity for employers and professional engineering institutions and the education and careers community to help ignite a passion for STEM and inspire young people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in their sectors.
“It’s such a great event – and totally free – and there are still a few sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities available for employers to get involved.
— Phillip McShane, Associate Director
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About EngineeringUK
EngineeringUK is a not-for-profit organisation that drives change so more young people choose engineering and technology careers. Our mission is to enable more young people from all backgrounds to be inspired, informed and progress into engineering and technology.
We work closely with our Corporate Members and in partnership with hundreds of organisations. We lead collaborative efforts to improve the impact of all engineering and tech inspiration and careers activities for young people through Tomorrow’s Engineers and managing The Tomorrow’s Engineers Code.
We ignite a passion for STEM among young people from all backgrounds through EUK Education and our school engagement programmes such as The Big Bang. Our careers resources help teachers bring STEM to life through real-world engineering and tech stories via Neon.
Our research and evidence build insight into the current workforce and our future needs. And our evaluations build understanding of what really works to inspire and inform the next generation. We also advocate for policy development in STEM and careers education and workforce planning for engineering and tech.
