Full STEAM ahead!
S&DR200 are joining with Little Inventors to bring you Next Stop: The Future! invention challenge to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR).
The S&DR200 Festival will present a series of free large-scale outdoor spectacles, events, exhibitions and new art commissions in the public spaces, libraries and world-class museums of County Durham and Tees Valley from March to November 2025.
The competition is open to Year 5, 6, 7 and 8 students in areas governed by Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, Darlington Borough Council and Durham County Council. Young people from all other year groups and/or in other parts of the world are welcome to use the resources and submit their ideas for publishing on our website, but will not be eligible for the competition which leads to ideas being brought to life.
Five of the ideas will be selected to be brought to life as professional designs, models, prototypes or other form of media by one of our expert makers!
To find out more about the S&DR200 festival, head to https://www.sdr200.co.uk/.
Inventors of the past have come up with some hilarious and down right bonkers ideas for things that could travel on tracks, from zoo’s to hand-powered bikes and everything in between! But you are the inventors of the future and it’s your turn now to go full steam ahead with your imagination and come up with something totally off the rails!
Hop aboard!