SMASHfestUK 2017: SuperVolcanoes - a free festival of science, engineering, technology, music, comedy, and arts, with something for all ages.

SMASHfestUK（www.SMASHfestUK.com）是一个新的科学节，利用文化和娱乐作为伦敦年轻人参与STEM的驱动力，重点是吸引“难以接触”的观众，扩大参与和增加多样性。该项目于2015年2月在南伦敦成功试点了一周，并于2016年获得了一笔小额PE赠款。这用于两个目的：建造了一个“DIY”天文馆，成为伦敦第二个天文馆的一周的节日，并参观了超过1000名年轻人，并支持SMASHfestUK“青年科学讲解员”计划招募和培训天文学和公众参与方面的年轻人（16-18岁）2016年（小行星）和2016年（太阳风暴），我们测试了一种新的科学节设计和用户体验方法，看看这种新颖的方法是否能成功吸引那些被认为“难以接触到”的观众。“在2015年和2016年运行SMASHfestUK之后，我们的评估表明，这种方法在许多层面上都取得了成功。在2017年，我们将带着一个完整的节日和一个改进的外展计划回归，以巩固这一成功，发展有效的方法，建立我们与社区的关系，并制定新的战略来扩大我们的青年观众范围。SMASHfestUK 2015和16在试点中成功实现了目标，其中一个关键因素是能够让所有活动免费提供给参与者，因此没有任何金钱障碍。另一个关键因素是将SMASHfestUK带入社区空间，我们认为这将更容易接近那些难以接触到的受众。我们希望在这两条战线上再接再厉。部分原因是人们意识到，尽管成本是一个障碍，但还有其他更相关的障碍难以触及受众。其中包括建筑物本身和节日“不适合他们”的看法。我们在2017年的活动中请求支持的两个不同领域涉及通过消除我们在2015年和2016年发现的一些障碍来扩大我们的受众范围，增加我们可以提供的计划质量的价值，并使SMASHfestUK能够与更多的年轻人合作。这项工作的一部分包括培训年轻人与年幼的儿童一起工作，并通过在我们的年轻科学解释者计划的主持下领导节日中的一些活动和表演来激发他们的热情，2016年在STFC的资助下进行试点。STFC对该项目的资助将使我们能够扩展2016年试点的YSE计划，招募更多的年轻人，并访问更多的学校，作为我们推广的一部分，培训方案。这也将使我们能够创造和制作一个破纪录的“冰火山”活动和相关的互动活动，这将介绍节日的参与者的工作STFC和天文研究人员在研究这些现象。SMASHfestUK的影响将带来科学和技术的新观众在南东伦敦和辐射从其主要基地在社区的德特福德。这应该延伸到刘易舍姆和格林威治的“难以接触”的年轻人。它旨在通过一个创新的节日和一个充满活力的参与方案和方法，让这些年轻人参与科学。艺术节将通过在科学家和艺术家、科学家和青年、青年和文化资源、机构和思想之间建立社区联系，建立社会、文化和科学资本。这笔资金还将支持我们的战略（也得到了维康信托基金、艺术理事会和NCPPE的支持），开始在英国其他类似服务不足和“难以接触”的地方推广SMASHfestUK概念。

SMASHfestUK (www.SMASHfestUK.com) is a new science festival that uses culture and entertainment as a driver of STEM engagement for young people in London, with a focus on engaging the 'hard to reach' audiences, widening participation and increasing diversity. It was successfully piloted over 1 week during February 2015 in South London and was awarded a small PE grant in 2016. This was used for two purposes: to build a "DIY" planetarium which became London's 2nd planetarium for the week of the festival and was visited by over 1000 young people, and also to support the SMASHfestUK "young science explainers" programme recruiting and training young people (16-18) in astronomy and public engagement In 2015 (asteroid) and 2016 (Solar Storm) we tested a new approach to the design and user experience of a science festival, and to see whether this novel approach would succeed in engaging audiences considered "hard to reach." Having run SMASHfestUK in 2015 and 2016, our evaluation shows that the approach did succeed on many levels. In 2017 we are returning with a full festival and an improved outreach programme to build on this success, develop the strands of the approach which work, build our relationship with the community and working on new strategies to extend our youth audience reach. SMASHfestUK 2015 and 16 successfully reached its targets in its pilot, with one of the key factors being able to keep all events free to the participants so that there was no monetary barrier to attendance. Another key factor was to take SMASHfestUK into community spaces, which we felt would be more accessible to those harder to reach audiences. We wish to build on both of these fronts. Part of this was the realisation that although cost was a barrier there were others more pertinent barriers for hard to reach audiences. These include the buildings themselves and the perception that the festival was 'not for them'. The two distinct areas of the project for which we are asking for support for the event in 2017 relate to extending our audience reach by removing some of the barriers we identified in 2015 and 2016, adding value in the quality of the programme we can offer and by enabling SMASHfestUK to work with more young people. Part of this work includes training young adults to work with and enthuse younger children by leading some of the events and performances in the festival under the auspices of our young science explainers programme, piloted in 2016 with STFC funding.Funding for this project from STFC will allow us to extend the YSE programme piloted in 2016 to recruit more young people and visit more schools as part of our outreach and training programme. It will also allow us to create and produce a record-breaking "Cryovolcano" event and related interactive activities which will introduce festival attendees to the work of the STFC and astronomical researchers in researching these phenomena.The impact of SMASHfestUK will bring science and technology to new audiences in South East London and radiating from its main base in the community of Deptford. This should extend to the 'hard to reach' young people of Lewisham and Greenwich. It aims to engage these young people in science through an innovative festival and a dynamic engagement programme and approach. The festival will build social, cultural and scientific capital by creating connections across the community between scientists and artists, scientists and young people, young people and cultural resources, institutions and ideas. This funding will also support our strategy (also supported by the Wellcome Trust, The Arts Council and NCPPE) to begin to roll out the SMASHfestUK concept in other similarly underserved and "hard to reach: audiences in other places throughout the UK.