British Grand Prix treat for Yorkshire children as part of 'creativity revolution' project
The non-profit organisation STEAM Co helped arrange a special Formula 1 trip for two Yorkshire families.
One of McLaren’s sponsors, a US tech firm called Smartsheet, took their logo off the car and replaced it with STEAM Co’s, who were involved in a range of events across the county before taking two families down from Yorkshire for a tour of McLaren’s technical centre in Woking, followed by a day in their pits at Silverstone where they were part of a creative engineering and science activity with superstar driver Lando Norris.
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Hide AdRichard Hampshire, from Emley who attended with his son Charlie, said: “We’ve had a fantastic couple of days here with STEAM Co and McLaren. I think it’s so important to inspire our kids to be engineers.”
Claire Young, who travelled from Wakefield to Woking and Silverstone with her daughter Ava, said: “Creativity is so important to our children’s futures yet it’s being cut in our schools. STEAM Co. ran a fantastic day at Ava’s school in Horbury Bridge last year – all the children were buzzing.”
STEAM Co is focusing its efforts on Shropshire, Cornwall and Yorkshire as areas which all had a key part in the Industrial Revolution.
Nick Corston, co-founder of STEAM Co, said: “We’re on a mission to raise a million quid to inspire a million kids to aim higher than high powered by their creativity and community.
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Hide Ad“We’re igniting a creativity revolution across the UK and where better than Ironbridge, birthplace of the industrial revolution and who better to collaborate with than Cornwall whose son Richard Trevithick invented the world’s first steam locomotive, built in Ironbridge and Yorkshire, the county
that provided the coal?
"With Leeds 2023 and Bradford 2025, Yorkshire is leading the UK with community creativity and we see art as the coal of the creativity revolution.”
Other STEAM Co. events around Yorkshire’s contribution to the Creativity Revolution launch weekend included a creativity pop-up and dynamite rocket launch at the Duncombe Park Steam rally and a pop-up rocket workshop at the Holmfirth Duck Race.