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BIG BANG FAIR 2025 SEEKS TO ENGAGE THE NEXT GENERATION IN ENGINEERING
The Big Bang Fair 2025 is expected to see more than 20,000 young people attend. IHEEM is proud to support a brand new award at the Fair, which will recognise engineering colloboration entries ‘with a real-world impact’
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HEEM CEO, Pete Sellars, was delighted to announce at last year’s Healthcare Estates that the Institute would be supporting EngineeringUK in delivering a brand new award as part of the Big Bang Competition in 2025. In addition to the IHEEM award, the Institute will be exhibiting at the Big Bang Fair for the first time, an event which sees over 20,000 young people attend in person to discover and be inspired by advancements and innovations in a diverse range of STEM- related industries. The Big Bang Competition is free to
enter, and invites young people in the UK aged 11 to 18 in state-funded secondary education, who are home educated, or who enter as part of a community group, to submit projects relating to a broad range of STEM themes, as outlined in the different competition categories. New for 2025, the IHEEM Innovation
in Wellbeing and Healthcare Engineering Award encourages young people to submit any proposal they believe aids the betterment of the healthcare landscape. As part of the remit, entrants are encouraged to think widely about the full scope of healthcare environments and stakeholders, with judges welcoming entries which have a real-world impact on all individuals who utilise healthcare-related services and products.
Encouraging critical
thinking The award reflects IHEEM’s commitment to innovation in healthcare engineering, and the education and empowerment of the industry’s future leaders. By encouraging young people to think
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critically and creatively, giving them the opportunity to consider and solve real- world problems, the Institute aims to engage the next generation in engineering collaboration, and how they can make a positive impact on all healthcare users. In presenting a challenge driven by problem solving, learning, and innovation, IHEEM is proud to inspire the engineers of tomorrow to build a better future in healthcare. To support the delivery
and impact of this work, a dedicated Big Bang Programme Group has been formed, which saw its first meeting take place in November 2024. The group comprises the following Institute members and Head
Office representatives:
• Kaltrina Azemi (Project Support Officer, Head Office).
Representative).
• James Chadwick (East Midlands Branch Chair).
• Paul Fenton (Business Development Director, Past-President).
• Steven Heape (Sustainability Advisory Platform Chair).
• Martyn Jeffery (Council member, South West Branch Chair, and Council
• Gareth Longley (ED&I Committee Chair). Representative).
• Darran Marks (Managing Director, Swindon and Wiltshire Institute of Technology).
• Simon Adamson (Council member, Yorkshire Branch Chair, and Council
Revealing the 2024 Big Bang UK Young Scientist of the Year.
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