Kidzania launches STEM fair to promote future careers

KidZania, the indoor city run by kids, will be hosting a STEM Fair on 20-22 June to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths skills and careers through curriculum-based activities.

Collaborating with STEM organisations and businesses including the Aviation Skills Partnership, Usbourne Books and national charity Remap, KidZania will make STEM activities available for key stage 1–3 pupils such as helping patients at hospital and A&E, or at the Bank depositing kidZos, Kidzania’s own currency. These activities will teach critical thinking, problem solving and team work.

The Aviation Skills Partnership will host a Pilot People Workshop on 20-22 June. This workshop is designed to get young people thinking about what it takes to be a pilot. In particular, what effects being a pilot has on the body both physically and mentally. The challenge encourages children to think about the science of the body and maths.

Authors Alex Frith, Alice James and Jerome Martin of Usborne Books will be at KidZania on Wednesday 20 June to host a STEM Quiz throughout the day at the KidZania University.

Remap, a national charity that helps disabled people achieve greater independence and quality of life, will be integrating with Middlesex Cricket in the KidZania Stadium on 20-22 June, looking at blind cricket and the engineerable solutions that need to be created in order to play cricket blind.

Additionally, Remap will be running an activity that looks at a number of different scenarios where children have to think about the solution from an engineering point of view and become engineers themselves.

To book tickets, email schools@kidzania.co.uk or call 0330 131 3335.