Mission Mammoth STEAMfest 2025 a "mammoth" success!
A sunny week in July was the date for our Mission Mammoth STEAMfest 2025!
STEAMfest 2025 provided an exciting opportunity to engage 400 children from primary schools across the city. The children and teachers! left leave the event feeling excited and inspired by the opportunities that STEAM and the construction and built environment industry presents’ them with. Also very importantly help to reposition the construction and built environment sector at the heart of STEAM.
Everyone took away positive messages and materials to help reinforce all the key messages we share together with their key influencers’ parents and family.
An overarching message is that the construction and built environment industry helps everyone. They will remember the amazing people that they have met – inspiring them to want to join you in the industry in a few years.
The annual event in partnership with Arts University Plymouth and The Box has a new brief this year for the students! Promoting Plymouth as an exciting place to visit and make life an adventure.
The Brief:
Mildred the Mammoth, who lives in The Box, loves living in Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City!
As well as The Box, we have amazing visitor landmarks including Smeaton’s Tower, the National Marine
Aquarium, Tinside Lido and the Theatre Royal Plymouth. Maybe you have visited some of these.
Mildred wants her friends to come and visit Plymouth, potentially to move here. She knows that they
will love it too! Mildred thinks that with your help, she can design and build another iconic landmark in
the city or surrounding area that will encourage more visitors too!
Can you work as a team to use your Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths (STEAM) skills to
design a new landmark for the city so that Mildred’s friends, along with other visitors around the world, will see what a fantastic place Plymouth is?
Don’t worry, our construction friends are on hand today to help you!
When you are designing your new Plymouth landmark here are some things to think about
Who would visit?
How would they get there?
What would it look like?
Where would it be located?
How would it be built?
How would it be powered?
Mildred can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Have a look at the briefing video that was played to the students every morning in the cinema of Arts University Plymouth before they set off on their day! click here
Children from 11 schools were supported by 80 construction friends across the 5 days to work on 4 different activities – Watch our video here to show you how they got on and all the fun they had!
We can’t wait to see all the competition entries and look forward to our celebration evening in October.