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This year’s Think B!G packs have been ordered, packed, and whipped off to schools all over the country …

Creative thinking encompasses a whole range of cognitive skills and attitudes. Divergent thinking, curiosity, problem solving …

As we celebrate our highlights from 2023, we’d like to wish you a very Happy Christmas from all at The B!G Idea…

The B!G Idea has been selected as the only Irish organisation amongst 100 of the world’s most impactful and scalable …

A team of students and teachers from a Galway school have returned home from a trip to Denmark, where they were the only …

We are so delighted to announce that The B!G Idea has won the 2023 Social Impact Award as part of the Diversity In Tech Awards …

It’s been a B!G year and as always we’ve taken great pride in shouting loud and proud about our students and our programme …

On reviewing PISA’s (the Programme for International Student Assessment) recommendations, it turns out …

In the first of the B!G Bites sessions, Owen Derby and Amy McKeogh will talk us through how they engage with ideation …

We are super excited to announce that The B!G Idea has been shortlisted in the 2023 Chambers Ireland Sustainable …

The B!G Idea has been praised in an OECD report for its work to promote creative thinking skills in formal education …

The B!G Idea has been shortlisted for the HundrED Global Collection 2024 and we are absolutely ecstatic …

The B!G Idea hit the RDS on Wednesday 31 May for the two-day Dublin Tech Summit 2023. Speaker topics included …

Powerful problem solvers and creative critical thinkers – students from across Ireland have learned one of the most in-demand skills …

The B!G Idea has scooped its first international accolade, winning the Education & eLearning category …

What an incredible experience it was to delve into this year’s pitches! The five categories of mental health, climate change …

Last week some of our team embarked on a mini road trip taking in schools from Waterford, all the way to Limerick …

Embracing failure seems to be a common theme amongst the latest Instagram Live participants …

This year’s Think B!G boxes have been ordered, sorted, packed and delivered to schools. Over 4000 packs were …

Around 4,000 Irish teenagers are to take on five of Ireland’s toughest social issues from this month …

We are stoked! To get 2023 off to a great start we are thrilled to hear that we have scooped the top prize …

Over the past couple of weeks we have held online mentor information sessions. These have been a great way …

What a year we’ve had! Moving on this year from doing all of our classes online, we had our first year of delivering …

Recently, The B!G Idea was selected for a place on the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Impact programme, a nine-month accelerator …

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock you will know by now that on Wednesday 16th November The B!G Idea fulfilled …

We’ve been a little quiet on the B!G 5 front of late as we’ve been busy getting classes ready for next year’s programme …

One of the amazing prizes at our Showcase in 2022 was a workshop to develop and prototype the overall B!G Winner’s idea …

It’s that time of year again! The IDI awards is the equivalent of the Oscars for design. Last year we were unbelievably blown away …

In case there is any doubt of our ability and drive we now have a global profile! The B!G Idea has a profile on Access Europe …

Our extensive awards cabinet has been added to again! This time it was our local home town who made us so proud …

We’re thrilled to be announced as an Awardee of the Equity in Education Fund from Rethink Ireland …

DRUMROLL PLEASE…..We are SUPER excited and proud to share our Impact Report with you all! WOW…

The B!G Idea team is not fond of sitting around. Last week, Kim, our main lady and Niamh, our programme manager …

This is a monumental time for The B!G Idea team as we complete our first ever Impact Report. We can’t tell you how excited …

The 2022 Mentors have been playing a blinder over the last number of weeks meeting Kim on Instagram Live and passing on …

On 21 July we had the first of our Mentor series and what an incredible kick-off event it was! It was fantastic to have so many …

We are looking for a creative, energetic Digital/Visual Communication Graduate who wants to help us support young people …

We have been so lucky to have the RIAI (The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland) as an award partner this year …

The B!G Idea are thrilled to have the immeasurable Netwatch as an award partner, supporting our students to be fearless …

We were so lucky to have a chat with the incredibly bubbly, energetic and inspiring Ailbhe Keane from Izzy’s Wheels …

At this stage it’s probably fair to say you’ve heard of our B!G Mentors (because we love to shout about them!) …

Who doesn’t remember the CJ Fallon logo on their text books while making their way through school lessons …

We just love seeing our name in print and it’s everywhere we look at the moment! Following our B!G Showcase, we’ve had coverage …

What a collection of winners! 2022 produced some incredible projects ranging from spaces for teenagers to hang out in …

The B!G Idea are so lucky to have MSD as an award partner and having their support over the past two years means the world to us …

What a mind-blowing experience to read through all of this year’s projects. The five categories this year were …

Last week Kim and Fiona embarked on a mini road trip taking in schools from Newcastle West in Durgarvan all the way up to Louth …

Two-thousand students from schools nationwide are nearing the end of The Big Idea programme as they submit their projects …

The B!G Idea believes in the power of creativity and democratising it to broaden young people’s mindsets …

Can you hear that? That silence is the calm before the storm. And the storm is a storm of whopper prizes …

The B!G 5 has continued throughout the year in all its bonkers, lively, fun yet informative way …

This year we are simply chuffed to have Aerogen on board as one of our Award partners …

Not ones to rest on our laurels, we have pulled out all the stops to produce our first ever mobile Teacher App …

It’s hard to believe we are already in Week 8 of the second year of The B!G Idea. Over 2000 students from 42 schools …

We’ve said before that we don’t do things by halves and last night we proved that once again when we won, not one but two …

On Thursday 17 February we hosted our final Lunch and Learn for Mentors. This was a very special one …

Couldn’t make our Mentor Kick-off Session? Here are some Tips and Takeaways from our chat with B!G Idea Teacher…

Couldn’t make our Mentor Kick-off Session? Here are some Tips and Takeaways from our chat with B!G Idea returning Mentor …

We had a B!G birthday to celebrate last week as Instagram Live was one year old! Over the past year we have interviewed…

The B!G Idea is recruiting. You heard it right, there is a position available for a Digital Marketeer, starting immediately…

Another month, another award possibility. We have always made it our mission to be the best that we can possibly be…

Over the last month The B!G Idea team have worked tirelessly to pack over 2000 Swag bags and 91 teacher boxes …

Spring is on the way and with it a feeling of renewal and new beginnings. It’s the time of year when we all feel the need to shake off….

We had the pleasure of meeting up with B!G Mentor, Andreas Heil in the company’s plush new headquarters in Swords….

The B!G Idea 2022 briefs are ready. It is time to stop talking and to get down to brass tacks…

It was lovely to meet up with Niamh Harmon from Sales Force to get her thoughts on being a Mentor…

Since October The B!G Idea have been offering discounts to our 2022 Mentors as a little way of saying thank you…

On 10th January 43 schools throughout the country embarked on a new B!G Idea programme. This includes over 80 …

It was the turn of Ronan Healy who is co-founder of a service design studio…

The B!G 5 never fails to entertain and the most recent interviews have certainly lived up to this ….

What a year we’ve had! We might have been smack in the middle of the first global pandemic in 100 years but…

Christmas is coming and boy, do we have an offer for you! Stribe are offering 35% off which will be just the thing….

The B!G Idea and IDI (Institute of Designers in Ireland) are working with CEUD (Centre for Excellence in Universal Design) and NDA…

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! Winners of the highest calibre! This week our main lady, our head honcho…

We thought it would be pretty cool to find out more about our Mentors who are joining the programme this year…

We love a discount as much as anyone and this week we have a fabulous opportunity …

The B!G Idea have loved having Jill Deering and Gillian Henderson from Jill & Gill as Mentors …

We are so thrilled to have been selected as a worthy recipient of startup funding …

The B!G Idea was super excited to be asked to speak at the Responsible Innovation Summit on Thursday 21 October…

The B!G Idea is thrilled to offer 15% discount off all training and events with This Is Doing to our 2022 Mentors…

The IDI Awards is one of those super glittery, fun events that is held every year and brings out the competitive edge…

We had the pleasure of speaking with Donnacha Neary, Managing Director of Sonica…

We love our Mentors and we know that many of you are ploughing your own furrows…

The B!G Five is back!! Each week we ask one of our Superstar mentors 5 questions and they have 15 seconds to answer…

Following on from last year’s wonderful success, The B!G Idea team are pulling out all the stops…

Here we go again, another incredible offer, another incredible way to progress…

If you haven’t been hiding under a rock for the past year then you will have heard us talking and talking….

Our B!G Mentor to interview this week was Gillian Reidy, designer and business owner of Penhouse Design…

So you are thinking of signing up or you have already signed up as a B!G Mentor and you’re wondering…

Our students had a lot to say about our 2021 programme and we loved hearing it. The enthusiasm and desire for creativity was bubbling out of each and every one of them…

To continue our campaign of giving something back to you, we are thrilled to be able to offer all our 2022 Mentors 20% discount off Buddabags…

This week it was the turn of positive vision storyteller, Ashwin Chacko for a quick chat. Ashwin uses…

It’s probably obvious by now that we are not ones to sit back and watch the world go by! Over the next month, we will be making lots of noise about our…

At The B!G Idea we believe in giving back and so we are thrilled to be able to offer lots and lots of exciting discounts…

We are so lucky to know so many cool people and this week we caught up with one such person. Roisin Lafferty is…

We caught up with Cormac O’Conaire this week, Chief Design Officer in Design Partners. Cormac was one of…

Last week, 27-29 August, Kim presented The B!G Idea at DesignPOP to continue our campaign to increase visibility…

Our second interviewee of sparkly mentors is Emma Geoghan, architect, urban designer and Programme…

It’s clear that we think The B!G Idea rocks and is the future for education in Ireland but we thought it would be good to talk…

We know creative skills are valuable and we wanted to prove it! We surveyed our 2021 students to see how The B!G Idea impacted them…