Supercharge your curriculum!
Are you looking to supercharge your curriculum and provide your students with a transformative experience? Look no further than The B!G Idea's multi-award-winning creative-thinking programmes, which connect industry and education for a brighter future. We're not just another curriculum add-on – by connecting your students with online industry mentors, we're a gateway to unlocking their full potential and empowering them to tackle real-world challenges head-on.
Students from Mercy Secondary School Ballymahon County Longford
About our programmes
The B!G Idea empowers teachers to equip students and learners with creative thinking skills to tackle real-world challenges, supported by mentors, teachers, and industry experts, shaping the next generation of innovative thinkers. Through our bespoke edtech platform, we bring students, teachers, mentors, and industry leaders together in a collaborative hybrid learning environment, fostering teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Our groundbreaking programme democratises education, empowering students to innovate regardless of their abilities or backgrounds.
Students from Portlaoise College using Our Creativity Card Kit!
Designed with expertise
Using both education and industry expertise, our programmes are designed to ignite your students' creative thinking superpowers and equip them with the tools to develop ground-breaking solutions to society's most pressing issues – issues they have identified themselves through our pre-programme surveys. This student-led approach ensures that the challenges addressed are relevant and meaningful, directly aligning with their interests and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Plus, the interaction with mentors throughout the programme significantly increases student engagement and motivation, as they begin to see the real-world applications of their new skills in action.
All materials provided
Yes, you read that right! We provide all the necessary teaching and learning materials, including lesson plans, presentations, printables, and 25 interactive workshops, ensuring a seamless integration into your curriculum. We also provide a FREE Think B!G class pack, which includes all learning materials needed to engage in the programme – a LEGO pack for systems thinking exercises, a sketchbook to capture brainstorming and reflection, all the stationery needed to engage in lessons and activities, levelling the playing field for all learning abilities.
Students from Lisneal College
Teacher and Facilitator Led Delivery
Our programme is delivered in schools and centres by teachers and facilitators from any subject discipline, ensuring a familiar and supportive learning environment for students. To ensure that everyone delivering the programme can do so with confidence, we offer guided CPDs and round-the-clock support to equip you with all necessary tools and knowledge. The programme can run from September to May for schools/centres that want maximum flexibility or January to May for a more condensed timeline.
Online Industry Mentorship
Picture this: your students, brimming with ideas, and our industry Mentors, armed with real-world experience, coming together with all the expertise and practical support to help teams to develop solutions for some pretty big societal issues, all run online through your Teacher Dashboard. We're talking about everything from hidden poverty to AI to climate change. It's all part of our programme, where mentorship is the secret sauce. By providing feedback at key stages during the programme, our B!G mentors are the fairy godparents for each project, guiding your students to their 'aha!' moments and beyond.
B!G Events
The most engaged and innovative teams will have the opportunity to attend our B!G Showcase and our B!G Accelerator, where they'll receive further guidance and support to refine and advance their ideas from B!G mentors and other industry partners. These events are where magic happens and your students truly believe they can do more than just dream of change – they can actually be the ones to make it happen. Spoiler alert: they all walk away feeling like superheroes.
The B!G Idea Accelerator 2023
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By integrating The B!G Idea programme into your curriculum, you'll not only align with objectives of personal development, skills acquisition, and equal access to learning but also provide your students with a unique and enriching experience that will shape their future as responsible, innovative, and socially-conscious individuals. So, what are you waiting for? Join the hundreds of schools and centres across the island of Ireland that have already embraced The B!G Idea. Sign up now and give your students an unforgettable experience that will empower them to face the challenges and opportunities of the future head on.