British Science Week Poster Competition 2024 – UK

The theme this year is ‘Time’, – there are loads of STEM topics were explored! Students could create a poster showing how a certain type of technology has changed over time, or even the advancement of time-telling technology itself. Budding poster makers could also go futuristic show them how they think the world might look in years to come, or perhaps look at nature – lifecycles, lifespans, evolution and hibernation – nature is full of timely topics.

British Science Week 2024 marks the Week’s 30th anniversary, with the inaugural celebration happening in 1994. Students could think about scientific innovations since then, or explore 1994 itself – what was life like 30 years ago?

Categories

• Category: Early years, Age: 3-5, England and Wales: Nursery/Reception, Northern Ireland: Nursery/P1, Scotland: Nursery/P1
• Category: Infant, Age: 5-8, England and Wales: Year 1 – Year 3, Northern Ireland: P2 – P4, Scotland: P2 – P4
• Category: Junior, Age: 8-11, England and Wales:  Year 4 – Year 6, Northern Ireland: P5 – P7, Scotland: P5 – P7
• Category: Senior, Age: 11-14, England and Wales: Year 7 – Year 9, Northern Ireland: Year 8 – Year 10, Scotland: S1 – S3
• Note: if children are of an age that spans age category (5, 8 or 11 years old), they should be submitted for the higher age group if born between April – August.

What are the prizes?

• Prizes for the 2024 competition winners include:
  • Cool Cat Chem Cards
  • 15-minute STEM books
  • Shape Aliens Game
  • At the museum jigsaw
  • A Day in the Life…books
  • Shroot pouches
  • Memberships for My Science Club
  • MegaWatt Games
  • SuperQuesters: The Case of Angry Sea STEM adventure books by QuestFriendz
  • A collection of Science Works books
  • Two space-themed 3D building playsets
  • The Living Planet book
  • WWF adoption pack
  • Annual subscription to Save My Exams
  • A 12 month subscription to Alfresco learning
• Prizes may vary by age category and by availability and they reserve the right to make changes to the prizes. Any prize awarded will be split across the team should a poster be submitted by a team.

Key Rules

• Entrants can be teams or individuals
  • teams will be judged in the age category of its oldest member
  • any prize awarded will be split across the team.
• Each school/group can enter a maximum of five entries. They encourage you to run the competition with larger groups but to select the top five to enter from your school. If you send more than five entries, they will only be able to include the first five in the competition. You can award further prizes within your school-level competition if you wish.
• Entries must be one page of A4 or A3 paper only and you will need to take a photo or scan of it to send electronically.
• Work must be original and created by the student(s) – please do not use any templates.
• Posters must be uploaded with entrant details:
  • entrant first name (all names if a team) and entrant age (all ages if a team)
  • category (of the oldest team member)
• Please name your files with the competition category, school postcode and student’s first name in the form, i.e. ‘EY_SW75HD_Ellie’. If students share a first name, please also include a number or initial.
• Please use the abbreviation EY for Early Years, IN for Infant, JU for Junior and SE for Senior.
• Please note, the data submitted will be used for the administration of the competition. First names, ages and schools of students may also be shared on our website and social media pages – if you do not want this data to be shared online you should make this explicitly clear in your submission, and they will only share school name.

Poster Competition Terms & Conditions

• Only up to 5 entries per school/organisation/group are allowed.
• Only schools within the UK, including BFPO addresses, are eligible to enter the competition.
• They reserve the right to make changes to prizes.
• There will be 1 overall winner and runner up per age category. There will also be 1 popular vote winner.
• All entries must be registered through the online form to be eligible to receive a prize.

For more information, visit British Science Association.