The impact of CREST in 2021/22

The latest CREST Awards impact report, released in July 2023 by the British Science Association, reveals the ways in which CREST has boosted science engagement opportunities for students, teachers and employers across the UK during the 2021/22 academic year.

CREST Discovery Days report summary

We ran a funded programme of CREST Discovery Awards with schools across the UK, and teacher training run by our regional partners to support and up-skill teachers to run Discovery Days themselves.

Here is what we found in the programme.

CREST in curriculum report summary

‘CREST: Building project work into the curriculum’ project, supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, was to encourage more schools to use open-ended student projects within the formal curriculum, with information specifically tailored to CREST, and for this to have a positive effect on students.