Two STEAM Co. FIlms have been chosen for the Smiley Charity FIlm Awards 2026
Our #OurRailway200 year of train mad activity and the epic #OurKLF reinkarnation project
See the films and vote for us by clicking here
If you saw us on BBC Breakfast ten years ago (see below) launching the Global Cardboard Challenge here in the UK, you may have wondered what those little blue clips were that we held the cardboard models together with.
Well it was a brilliant system called MakeDo from Australia that we’ve struggled to buy since but it’s back, improved and we’re proud to say that Nick is the first MakeDo UK Ambassador and we’re one of a handful of people selling it here in the UK.
A UNIQUE LIVE SHOW
A collaboration with our special guest co-presenter Felix’S Space TIme
We flew out to Boca Chica in Texas in #StarShip22 so you don’t have to.
We live streamed from/in our live studio on #OurSeeMonster that we hastily constructed from cardboard, code and our creativity for a recap ofthe launch attempt of Space X’s StarShip25.
Went live at 19:00GMT : 13:00 CT Sat 18 Nov 2023
SPECIAL GUESTS
We were delighted to be joined by:
Homer Hickam - Author Rocket Boys and STEAM Co. Patron
Andrew Parrish - former NASA engineer in Boca Chica who saw the launch
The live stream
Be part of it
What a year
We’ve had the best summer, since the McLaren F1 racing team put our STEAM Co. logo on the front of their car at the British Grand Prix.
See the film they made below to help us ignite a creativity revolution.
Find out more about the #OurMillion23 appeal and make a donation if you can.
It’s one of the most inspriing stories- how a lad who read 3 books a day, apparently every book in the school library, had a dream.
Of taking the human race to space, to Mars
He had the knowledge, he needed some skills, so he learned to code, helped launch PayPay.
He sold his shares to launch a solar panel company, an electric car company and a starship company that has flown over 100 space missions with reusable rockets.
Love or loath Elon Musk (we don’t do either), you can’t deny it’s an inspiring story and one of several we’ve been telling kids on our UK tours.
Now the next chapter is about to unfold… join us
A blog that shows how naïve it can be to think that education isn’t political and how effective deliberately divisive policies are proving to be in dividing us at a time when we should all be finding common ground and coming together.
And I should know – today The Guardian misfiled, misrepresented and misquoted me when publishing a letter I’d written to them in Mr Angry mode (they’ve since issued a full apology and corrected it) and I’m still reeling from losing the support of a good friend and a few good people this week for giving them the wrong sandwich.
But who cares?
We had a fantastic day with one of our ‘Mission to Mars’ sessions at St Issey School, just down the road from Padstow in Cornwall, helping to launch #Cornwall22 as part of our #Ignite22 Festival Year
Launching a campaign to Start a Creativity Revolution.
We had a fantastic day launching our campaign to inspire a million kids with one of our ‘Mission to Mars’ sessions at St Lawrence Primary in Church Stretton in the shadow of the stunning Shropshire Hills.
We’ve been pleased to support the annual STEAM Day at thsi Camden School for the last three years, where they park the time table and offer students a range of creative sessions and talks,
WHat a day we had.
We were delighted that our ‘We’re All Born Artists’ film has been short listed for the Charity Film awards
Will you vote and share to help us get to the top?
Our Person of the Year 2021
Isn’t a billionaire
Hasn’t changed the world
Doesn’t have 68m followers
BUT SHE IS:
As committed
As generous
As passionate
And does have the most important job in the world
Like millions like her
WHO WILL HELP US #IGNITE22
Our #MissionToMars21 UK Tour is all about inspiring a Million Kids to Aim Higher Than High, and there’s nowhere higher on the planet than the North Pole, so we’re off there.
Join us for a very special live stream from the top of the world with Prince of Wales School, in Dorset who have been Inspired to Learn by travelling around the world in 80 Days and today it’s the North Pole
Live Streaming from their cardboard base camp at the North Pole here at 1.30pm Tues Dec 7th
OUR MILLION 21
This is all part of STEAM Co.’s #MissionToMars21 to Raise a Million QUids to Inspire a Million Kids in 2022 by putting 22 of our Pop-Up Day Drop Trucks and STEAMsters on the road in 2022 to compliment the governmants National Festival of Creativity.
Will YOU chip in a quid here to be part of it?
POLAR EXPLORERS
What is it like to be a polar explorer? Why not ask an expert, someone who’s been there.
Polar Explorer Antony Jinman on a mission
We have been delighted to partner with Creative Education Technology Charitable Trust LGfL who were one of the sponsors of our #MissionToMars21 UK Tour.
As well as providing connectivity and tech to schools. they provide creative tools and inspiring content too.
Check out their Polar Explorers project here with Polar Explorer Antony Jinman here
What a week
A live stream to wrap up a wonderful first week of our Twelve Days of #LetsCreateXmas21 campaign, to encourage everyone to make Christmas, not buy it.
Our #MissionToMars21 Tour has seen us go from from London to Luton, Liverpool to Lisburn and the Lakes to Leeds.
And here we are in Lincoln, well a small village just outside called Scampton, actually at the end of a very famous runway, that the 617 Dambusters Squadrom took off from.
Join us from a cardboard Mars base camp we’re building on the playing field at Scampton C of E Primary School at 7pm on Sunday 5th December for a family live stream with fun and prizes
Also more about #OurMillion21 Campaign to Raise a Million Squids to Inspire a Million Kids
Links
The live stream links are below:
You will be able to post comments and shout outs that we can display on screen, but please be aware that chidlren will be watching so please be respectful.
You can also join our studio audience on Zoom and come on camera at 8pm here (children on camera must be accompanied by an adult)
Please note this is a virtual event for which you’ll need to use your imagination. Do not visit the school.
#OURMILLION21 APPEAL
After five years of working with school communities right across the UK, today we at STEAM Co. launched an appeal to raise a Million Quids to Inspire Million Kids by putting 22 of our Pop-Up Creativity Day Drop Trucks and STEAMsters on the road and running a few community art festivals in Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England through to compliment the government’s National Festival of Creativity and Innovation in 2022.
See film below and read more/chip in here
STEAM Co. are delighted to help the Children and Staff at Parklands Primary in Leeds live stream two events to their community as part of their 24 Days of #XmasAtParklands and our own #MissionToMars21 Tour and #LetsCreateXmas21 campaign.
This is particulalry special as one of our tour sponsors, LGfL provide ultrafast internet connectivity to Parklands.
DAY 11 - Dec 15th : A VERY SPECIAL GUEST
A heart warming morning of music and song by the children and a famous singer.
Watch it on YouTube below
10.00am SHINE STAR SHINE - Early Years and KS1
11.30am THE YORKSHIRE TENOR - Jacob Walsh
See YouTube above and other social links below (don’t worry if your school firewall says the video is inaccessible, it will be when we go live)
DAY 1 - Dec 1st : SWITCHING ON THE LIGHTS
We live streamed two events from Parklands Primary on the Seacroft Estate in Leeds to help launch their Christmas month and our own Twelve Days of Creative Xmas.
10.00AM - #XMASATPARKLANDS LAUNCH
BROUGHT TO YOU BY STEAM Co.
These events are brought to you as School Community Live Streams by STEAM Co. - a non-profit that helps inspire all our kids to aim higher than high, powered by ther creativity and community.
You can support our work for as little as a pound a month and help us raise a million quid to inspire a million kids in 2022.
See film below and get more info here
And a cast of #CreativeCarers
We’re grateful to day to our sponsors The Inspiration4 Spa eX Mission, cardboard modelling system MakeDo and LGfL, the Creative Education Technology Charitable Trust that provides connectivity, content and creative tools to schools across the UK who have sponsored these live streams as part of STEAM Co.’s #MissionToMars21 Tour and our #LetsCreateXmas21 campaign.
Supporters include EdTechUK, Whole Education, The RSA Fellowship, School Speakers and Edge Foundation
Vic Goddard is what we call one of our #BraveSchoolLeaders he not only leads the school community he serves but does so by doing what he knows is right, fair and works, running a truly cooperative comprehensive community school in event sense of those words.
So we bought him and his colleagues a drink.
Our Inspired To Learn Summer Tour was incredible so we want to do it again.
We want to rent the camper van again and hit the road but for a PROPER tour of the UK, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland back via Wales.
Our schools are broke so we’re looking for three sponsors to help us visit 30 schools before Christmas.
Inspired by a couple of dads, some women in space and all our kids. For all their futures.
The truth is out, he never really did go to space.
It was all a fake.
But today Captain Kirk goes to space for real.
What a fantastic day we had at Horndon on the Hill Primary School in Thurrock, Essex on Monday 4th October.
It was the first of our Trailblazers Art and Creativity Days this year with the Royal Opera House Bridge for Arts Council England, which is all made possible by funding from The National Lottery.
And what better way to kick off World Space Week too.
Today is a big day for The RSA with Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist at The Bank of England, being sworn in as CEO in a global online Town Hall event tonight after which we are going to host a Zoom reception to launch a #PowerToCreate21 initiative to test fellowship appetite for a year of creativity in 2022.
As an ArtsMark partner we were delighted to be invited to give a short talk at an ArtsMark Connects event organised by A New Direction who are the Arts Council England’s Bridge Organisation for London.
It was called ‘Reconnecting with the Cultural Sector’ and looked at lessons from lock down using digital media and future ways of working.
It was a fantastic event - highly interactive for a Zoom session with regular breakouts and clever use of Google’s JamBoard, and was really well supported by art teachers and leaders from around 50 or so schools.
Our talk
We had five minutes to talk about the hundreds of hours we’d live streamed last year across 5 three day festival weekends, over twenty pop-up days across the UK and a few cardboard props.
So talked quickly, as you can see:
In the talk I showed the cardboard Coventry cathedral we’re live streaming from to and with school communities on our #InspiredToLearn21 Live and Live Streamed Tour on which we set up the green screen studio in school halls.
I also gave a sneak peak at the Streamyard and Vmix software we use, but it really doesn’t have to be that complicated, there are easy ways to start bringing your online meetings to life.
If anyone is interested in a more detailed hour long session on this tech, then do get in touch and we’ll put something together.
Either way, do take a look at the #InspiredToLearn21 Tour appeal film below… you won’t believe your eyes!
If you’d like to book this session for your school to jump start the Autumn term, get in touch here
ANOTHER GREAT IDEA
We had a great idea - to run a UK tour to get everyone behind our children, our teachers and and our brave school leaders, who understand and value creativity in our schools, work and lives.
But our schools are broke so we’ve decided to reach out for help from sponsors - as little as a pound to help us inspire our kids.
On Thursday 20th May we launched an appeal in Ironbridge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, to help launch a Creativity Revolution in the UK to inspire our Kids, Create Jobs and Connect Communities.
We appealed to Creative Carers - people who care about Creativity, Children and All Our Futures to help fund our #InspiredToLearn21 Summer Tour of School Communities across the UK.
FOUR WAYS TO HELP US
There are four ways you can support our work to deliver this tour next term and through the summer holidays.
Creative Carer Patreon - for as little as £1 a month you can support our work here
Half Day Sponsor - for just £300 you can pay for one of our live half day sessions with assembly, rocket workshop for a class and a real rocket launch here
Full Day Sponsor - for £750 you can pay for one of our half days sessions with assembly, a day of 4 creative activities for the whole school and a real rocket launch here
Tour Sponsor for £7,500 you can be one of our three tour sponsors and help us rent vehicles, PR back up and really go to town with this after half term and though the summer holidays here
Tour sponsors will get their logo on the tour materials, and our drop truck as well as a full page ad in 20,000 newspapers (paper and digital like this) that we will publish for the tour. We’ll also do a day session in your name, that you can attend and you/your staff can help on.
If you have any queries on the above do email us on yourturn@steamco.org.uk
Check the films below of these wonderful days on the #InspiredToLEarn20 Tour so far:
#AimHigh21 live stream for Millbrook Primary
#InspiredToLearn21 Launch at Prince of Wales Primary
LAUNCH EVENT Speaker line up
We were blown away by the generosity of the people who stepped up at short notice to say a few words and show some support for this:
Claire Scott - Speakers for Schools, Apprentice Finalist
Richard Gerver - Innovation, Leadership and Education Guru
Gary Spracklen -Leader, Prince of Wales School
Ty Goddard - CEO, Education Foundation
Gaurav Garg - CEO, Letslocalise
Check out the live stream film below.
STEAM CO. AND SHROPSHIRE
Our co-founder Nick Corston, was born and bred in Shropshire and is Patron for the Ludlow Fringe Festival this summer.
We ran a regional launch event at Ironbridge five years ago - check out the film below of that wonderful day.