In November, pupils from Science for Life hub schools undertook and led science activities that celebrated the achievements of black scientists. Each group of pupils made a poster about a scientist to display at the event. Paul Brown MBE, manager of the Mechanical Instrumentation Workshop in the Department of Physics at Imperial College and Alfred John, a British Standards Institution engineer joined in, made presentations and answered questions. Afterwards, some parents came along and enjoyed completing the activities under the direction of their children.

Hanover pupils presented information about Mae Jemison and led pupils to design and make their own constellations.

Newington Green pupils learnt about Mae Jamison and Louis Purnell and got everyone involved into an investigation over time to find out the best material to make a space suit from to keep an astronaut at the right temperature.

Drayton Park pupils learnt all about Winifred Burks-Houck. Their activity involved pupils making predictions about what would best clean copper pennies and then testing that.

Gillespie pupils made posters about Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock and led others to complete activities related to space which included making and testing parachutes from different materials; following capsule communicator instructions to recreate a lego model and finding out how much they would weigh on different planets.