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，它以文化和娱乐为动力，推动伦敦年轻人参与STEM，重点是吸引难以接触到的观众，扩大参与和增加多样性。它于2015年2月在伦敦南部成功试行了一周多，并于2016年获得了小额私募股权基金。这是为了两个目的：建造一个“DIY”天文馆，这是艺术节当周伦敦的第二个天文馆，有1000多名年轻人参观；还为了支持SMASHfestUK的“年轻科学讲解员”计划，招募和培训年轻人(16-18岁)，在2015年(小行星)和2016年(太阳风暴)我们测试了一种新的方法来设计科学节和用户体验，并看看这种新方法是否能成功吸引被认为“难以接触到”的观众。在2015年和2016年执掌SMASHfestUK后，我们的评估显示，这种方法在许多层面上确实取得了成功。2017年，我们将带着一个完整的电影节和一个改进的外展计划回来，以此为基础，发展行之有效的方法，建立我们与社区的关系，并制定新的战略，以扩大我们的青年受众。SMASHfestUK 2015和16在其试点中成功地达到了目标，其中一个关键因素是能够使所有活动对参与者免费，这样就不会有金钱障碍。另一个关键因素是将SMASHfestUK带入社区空间，我们认为这些空间将更容易接触到那些更难接触到观众的人。我们希望在这两个方面都有所建树。部分原因是人们意识到，尽管成本是一个障碍，但对于难以接触到的观众来说，还有其他更相关的障碍。这些问题包括建筑本身，以及人们认为节日不是为他们准备的。我们要求为2017年的活动提供支持的两个不同领域涉及通过消除我们在2015年和2016年确定的一些障碍来扩大我们的受众范围，增加我们可以提供的节目质量的价值，以及使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更小的孩子一起工作并激发他们的热情，在我们的青年科学讲解员计划的赞助下，在艺术节上领导一些活动和表演，该计划于2016年试行，由STFC资助。为STFC的这个项目提供资金将使我们能够扩大2016年试行的YSE计划，以招募更多的年轻人并参观更多的学校，作为我们外展和培训计划的一部分。它还将使我们能够创造和制作一个破纪录的“冰冷火山”事件和相关的互动活动，向节日参与者介绍STFC和天文研究人员在研究这些现象方面的工作。SMASHfestUK的影响将把科学和技术带给伦敦东南部的新观众，并从其在德普特福德社区的主要基地辐射出去。这一点应该延伸到路易斯安姆和格林威治那些“难以接触到”的年轻人身上。它的目的是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。艺术节将通过在整个社区建立科学家和艺术家、科学家和年轻人、年轻人与文化资源、机构和思想之间的联系，建立社会、文化和科学资本。这笔资金还将支持我们的战略(也得到了惠康信托基金、艺术理事会和NCPPE的支持)，开始在其他类似服务不足和“难以接触到：英国其他地方的观众”中推出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.