If you head into the Memorial Gardens this Saturday any time from 11am to 4pm, you will be greated by a host of stalls dedicated to inspire children with science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
It’s an annual event and much like an iceberg, it sits atop a much larger range of STEMfest activities taking across the town, particularly focused on local schools, designed to encourage local children to study STEM subjects.
The event has been run in partnership with a number of local and national organisations since 2012, a year in which we beat out competiton–including the Science Museum–to attract the ‘Big Bang Fair’ to the Hawth.
The eagle-eyed amongst you, will have noticed that this means that this was an achievement of the period the Conservatives ran Crawley Borough Council, which is true and I always make sure to credit them for anything they delivered for the town, it just doesn’t happen to be a particularly long list.
Work by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has consistently rated Crawley as having the worst social mobility in the South East, indeed one of the worst in the entire country, meaning that in Crawley more than almost anywhere else your fortunes are tied to those of your parents. The council’s work through events like STEMfest are an attempt to cut through this and to encourage and support children to let hardwork and their natural abilities take them as far as they can go.
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