Challenges

Join the European Space Agency and the Raspberry Pi Foundation for their Astro Pi Challenge Mission Zero. These coding activities will get you started.

Gather a group of friends and get involved in the Million Mile Clean.

Learn the skills of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer.

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How good are you and your friends at detecting different flavours?

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Your brain is a mighty organ capable of making a billion billion (that’s one followed by 18 zeros) calculations every second. Try these experiments to test your brain’s computing power.

Put your heart to the test with these simple exercises.

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Put your science and engineering skills to the test to protect a falling egg.

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To celebrate National Tree Week, get out and about and become a seed planter.

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Preserve memories of life in the 2020's for the future.

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Get to grips with computer coding using just a pencil and paper.

Can you free these lego explorers from a frozen trap?

Using some simple tricks, you can be top of the class in maths.

Take part in one of the UK's biggest citizen science projects.

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Track the health of the nation's urban trees.

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Challenge your family or friends to grow the tallest sunflowers.

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Search out your slimy neighbours in the name of science.

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Rock on this summer - and use these tips for our summer Scavenger Hunt.

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Adopt and care for a local stretch of coastline.

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Do you think you have lightning-fast reactions? Now is your chance to prove it.

Challenge your friends and family to pick up ice cubes using just a piece of string. Then show them how it is done using a little bit of science.

Unlock your inner engineer and discover how paper tubes can make amazingly strong structures.

Get involved in this citizen-science project from Dundee University to study the marks footwear leave behind. The data you collect could help forensic scientists investigate crime scenes.

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Could you live without plastic? Skipper and ocean activist Emily Penn has a coll way to keep an eye on the amount you use.

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Become an animator whizz with this simple project.

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Wow your friends with this maths trick.

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Amaze your friends with this egg-cellent science set-up.

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Can you solve this Mother’s Day puzzle to create a heart?

Explore the autumn night skies and open up the universe’s wonders.

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Start your new year off by doing something to help the planet.

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Make some flippin’ fabulous pancakes and test your puzzle-solving skills.

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Protect your local coastline from tiny pellets of plastic.

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Grab a bucket and spade, and create some amazing artwork at the beach.

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Get out in nature and help champion UK trees.

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Use the magic of maths to mimic nature.

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Will you be crowned the champion bottle-flipper?

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Learn how to talk with a torch and send messages in the dark. 

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