St Mary's Festival of Ideas

Ideas to open minds

Festival of ideas logoSt Mary's Festival of Ideas brings world-leading thinkers and different ideas into School.

Inspired by Cambridge University's brilliant our week-long Festival programme, brings experts into School from diverse sectors to share their big ideas.

Recent programmes included:

  • Women in Technology -
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Dr Cave and Dr Dihal,
  • Book Writing - From Idea to Print - Sorrel May, - an immersive adventure quest set in Cambridge
  • Exploring Greenland - , Managing Director, Churghgate Consulting
  • Women in Science - Dr Bojana Popovic, Principal Scientist in Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering at MedImmune part of , Cambridge
  • Space - , Professor of Astrophysics, University College London

Questions explored included:

  • What are the challenges of being a female CEO?

  • How would you plan an arctic expedition?

  • Will we replace class teachers with robots one day?

This event ignites imaginations and encourages girls to think critically and creatively, as part of our academic enrichment for all.