Big bangs and teacher fellows

Around 29,000 people flocked to the Big Bang, the UK's largest single celebration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for young people, at London's ICC ExCeL Centre on 10-12 March.

The event offered a huge range of interactive events, activities, workshops, shows and presentations, bringing together 150 different organisations with the shared aim of inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers. 

Highlights included live shows from the BBC's Bang Goes the Theory and Sky One'sBrainiac. Organisations with hands on displays included Welding with Chocolate from TWI, Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention Roadshow and Liquid Crystals: From Flat Panel Screens to Living Cells from the University of Manchester.