Dates for your diary

Awareness days and key dates

Summer term

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Earth Day


22 April 2025

Embrace the Earth

National Numeracy Day

21 May 2025

Celebrate numeracy
A young person at The Big Bang Fair is lit by theatrical lighting. They are holding a piece of equipment which is glowing. They stare into the foreground.

The Big Bang Fair 2025

17 to 19 June 2025

Explore The Fair
Fly agaric mushroom

World Environment Day

5 June 2025

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Industrial greenhouse

Great Big Green Week

7 to 15 June

Explore Great Big Green Week
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International Women in Engineering Day

23 June 2025

Discover INWED

Autumn term

Primary school pupils in a classroom setting. The pupils have small model wind turbines on their desks along with text books and pencils. Two students are interacting with their model.

Climate Schools Programme opens

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Silhouette of a person writing maths formulae on a whiteboard

Ada Lovelace Day


8 October 2024

Find Ada
The Big Bang Competition's UK Young Scientist of the Year winner stands and smiles at the camera surrounded by her working boards and sketches that show how her winning idea developed

The Big Bang Competition opens

October 2025

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Wind turbines in water at sunset

Green Careers Week

Explore green careers
Deep space, a galaxy or constellation

World Space Week


4 to 10 October 2025

Go into space
A group of secondary school students sit around a big table with their workbooks and pens. A teacher sits at the head of the table and is talking.

Tomorrow's Engineers Week

November 2025

 

Register for TE Week
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Protecting our Planet Day

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A person in a glass walled boardroom surrounded by post it notes. They are writing on a large sheet of paper. Two people stand the other side of the glass.

National Engineering Day

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A picture of the Earth from space

COP30



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Ranita Ariyibi, UK Young Engineer of the Year 2023 shows a guest at The Big Bang at Parliament her invention

Big Bang at Parliament