ALL BACK TO BETT
As ever all roads lead to London’s Docklands for the BETT Show 29-31 March 2023.
Our stand was too big to go inside so if you look carefully, and use a bit of imagination you’ll see #OurSeeMonster outside.
It’s a 100m tall oil rig made from cardboard, code and creativity, a £10m work of art that we rescued from the beach at Weston Super Mare and are taking to schools across the UK as part of #OurCreativity23 Year.
Check out the film here of when we set it up outside a primary school in Liverpool, opposite the cathedral to help launch the Save Our Subjects campaign with the Edge Foundation, The Independent Society of Musicians and 20 other organisations.
#OurSeeMonster is a beacon for the creativity revolution that Our Children, Our Communities and Our Country still need after the Government’s £120m #Unboxed2022 National Festival of Creativity and Innovation.
THURSDAY #TMBETT23 LIVE STREAM
FRIDAY AI ROBOT PRIZE DRAW
Our focus at BETT2023 is the UK’s #TechSkillsCrisis - highlighted by Michelle Donelan, the Minister of Science, Innovation and technoogy at an HM Treastury briefing recently where she said IT sector vacancies are costing UK GDP £150 BILLION a year.
That’s what we call a crisis!
All week we’ll be asking people a few questons about what they think - whether parents or teachers - and entering everyone into a draw to win a super cool EZ AI enabled JD Robot which we will be drawing in a lie stream from #OurSeeMonster at 8pm Friday 31st March.
Details on entering/live stream to follow
BETT FLASH BACK
Is it really seven years since our first STEAM Co. talk when our co-founder Nick Corston took to the stage at #TMBETT16 - check it out below.
He went to his first BETT back in the very early 90’s and marvelled then at how Lego had come on (it was the first time he’d seen Lego Technics!)
He did 6 talks at BETT that year.
Read Nick’s blog about that, Tech Literacy and why ‘Computers Suck’ here.