Exhibitor 1
School Of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London
Come Fly With Me: This is a hands on activity where leaners tweak their planes to get it to perform better.
Marshmallow Challenge: Visitors try and build a structure using spaghetti and mashmallows.
Exhibitor 2
purpleSTARS
Exhibitor 3
The UEL Sustainability and Plastic Champions
Exhibitor 4
Neighbourhood Health Hub: Local Health Support and Community Engagement
The Neighbourhood Health Hub (NHH) is a community-based initiative dedicated to improving access to health information, advice, and local services for residents. By offering clear signposting and preventative support within neighbourhood settings, the Hub helps people navigate health and care systems with greater confidence and ease.
Bringing health support closer to where people live is central to the Hub’s mission. Through collaboration with public health teams, students, voluntary organisations, and community groups, NHH strengthens local partnerships and promotes early intervention, prevention, and community wellbeing.
At the Newham Citizen Science Fair, we will be sharing information about our work, engaging with residents and partners, and exploring opportunities to further support neighbourhood-based health initiatives
.Exhibitor 5
NHC will provide a health stand, carry out health checks and promote local services such as the Youth Zone.
www.newhamhealthcollaborative.co.uk
.Exhibitor 6
A Health Tech company VirtTuri Healthcare will share their innovative AI and Avatar technologies.
.Exhibitor 7
UCL Citizen Science Academy
The UCL Citizen Science Academy is a new initiative based at UCL East in the Olympic Park. It primarily trains ‘citizen social scientists’ who are trained in research methods, ethics and theory, and paid and supported to undertake research in their local area. It operates across London, and also has international projects in Lebanon, Tanzania, and Kenya.
The Academy will be showing its new ‘pop-up exhibition’ which folds out of a suitcase, designed to be a creative way of bringing creative research outside of the boundaries of the university – and into community exhibitions and fairs like this one!
.Exhibitor 8
Newham Community Research Network
The Newham CRN is one of nine funded collaborations across the UK seeking to make an infrastructure of bottom-up research. It is led by Compost London and supported by the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity and Newham Council, along with Newham Community Project, ELBWO, The 5 E’s, and Rix Inclusive Research at UEL, amongst many others.
The first of three groups of community researchers supported by the project are 12 local residents who have been researching issues affecting migrant and refugee groups in Newham. They will be showing some of their varied qualitative research outputs that tell in creative ways the struggle of many in Newham’s diverse communities. You can also hear about the upcoming work of the Network, including citizen scientists from the Marginalised Women and Young Adults with SEND subnetworks.
.Exhibitor 9
A mix of interactive, play‑based tech activities designed to spark creativity and problem‑solving. Families can experiment with simple coding challenges, digital puzzles, and guided games that blend physical and digital play. Whether you want to build, code, or create together, there’s something engaging for children and grown‑ups! Recommended age 6+.
Exhibitor 10
Think Create Learn
Think Create Learn provide fun and engaging ways for students of all ages to discover the creative side of computing. Visitors to our stand will be invited to explore a variety of activities where they can combine code with physical materials and electronics to create interesting machines and gain an understanding of the scope of digital making.
.Exhibitor 11
Smile Powered Music with the PhotoSYNTH
After a busy world tour bringing the music to MIT, the Royal Society, V&A and the Science Museum, we are honoured to be back in London for the Newham Citizen Science Fair with our accessible and immersive music-making rig and jam sessions, which includes magical-mirrors that grant you instant musical superpowers, futuristic controllers for making music like playing video games, and a holographic musical instrument which rather than being played, plays you instead! Make super fun music with your family and friends… no musical experience necessary!
Exhibitor 12
CDT Makers Club
Exhibitor 13
Woodgrange Medical Practice has been a key COVID-19 vaccination provider across Newham, Waltham Forest, and Tower Hamlets. Our programme delivers pop-up vaccination clinics, supports housebound patients, and partners with local community organisations, faith groups, and voluntary sector services to ensure equitable access. We tailor outreach to address vaccine hesitancy, improve uptake, and reach residents at higher risk, combining operational delivery with community-led engagement to reduce health inequalities and build trust. As part of our ‘Making Every Contact Count’ approach, we go beyond COVID-19 vaccinations, offering flu vaccines and opportunistic health checks to support overall community health.
Exhibitor 14
In 2021, she Founded ‘She Inspired Her CIC, a community organisation dedicated to providing consistent, results-driven services and events for women and youth in Newham.
Exhibitor 15
Makers and Dreamers: Building a Borough Brain
In the AR/VR Lab at the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability, the Makers and Dreamers exhibition brings together the Makers Club, UEL students, and the Negotiating AI as a Community (NAIC) Borough Brain project team.
Together they are experimenting with something unusual: a community-trained AI.
Instead of relying entirely on large tech companies, the team is exploring how a local Large Language Model (LLM) — a self-hosted AI system — could be developed to support community knowledge, creativity, and collaboration.
Come and meet the team, learn how local AI systems work, and talk to the AI they are beginning to train.
The exhibition is called Makers and Dreamers because it combines two essential things:
- Making — learning how to build and understand new technologies
- Dreaming — imagining how these tools could strengthen communities and help people connect, learn, and create together
At its heart is a simple but powerful question:
Can AI be built with, for, and by communities of citizens — rather than only by corporations for markets of consumers?
Exhibitor 16
Community Energy Newham – CEN
Community Energy Newham, your local community-led renewable energy and child-led environmental group SMP are teaming up for Super Solar Session at the Citizen Science Fir 2026 at the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability.
Some of you might know CEN for their amazing solar panel projects and their feasibility study. SMP is known for their engaging workshops with children from 5-15yo.
For the CSF 2026 we have put our skills together to run a fun and interactive Solar Session for children (of all ages) and their parents/ carers. The workshop is designed to help families understand energy use in a simple, engaging way empowering children to become climate champions at home while supporting families to reduce energy bills and carbon emissions, creating artwork and wearable messages using the power of the sun, linking creativity with renewable energy, as well as experimenting with solar power.
What children will gain:
• Hands-on, creative learning about sustainability, renewable energy and climate action
• The chance to design their own “London of the future”, exploring ideas like solar power, green spaces and energy efficiency
• Creative sun-powered activities (cyanotype printing and badge-making) that make learning about solar energy fun and memorable
• Experimenting with solar powered car Toys and hands on and building a little solar power stations.
• Increased confidence to talk about saving energy and protecting the planet at home and in school
What families will gain:
• Clear, practical advice on how to save energy and lower household bills
• Simple tips that can be put into action immediately, even in rented or low-income households
• Information about local support, advice services and community energy initiatives
• Opportunities to learn alongside their children in a relaxed, welcoming environment
• A friendly, jargon-free session focused on reducing energy costs and carbon footprints.The Solar Session is part of our wider mission to build awareness and action towards a low-carbon future through education and community engagement.
We would love the opportunity to bring this engaging session to schools, whether as part of an Eco Day, after-school activity, family learning event, Parents Coffee Morning, or fun activities and workshops for kids during the school time.
Please let us know if you would be interested in hosting this workshop or if you would like any further information. We would be delighted to work together to support
pupils and families in making positive, lasting change for Newham
Be part of the team.
Newham needs you.
Calling all…
- Makers, inventors, tinkerers
- Coders, hackers & data wizards
- Low-tech, high-tech, no-tech-at-all people
- Systems-and-strategy types
- Hands-on creative types
- “Able to fix anything” types
- Community-builders
- History & archives people
- Hobbyists & specialists
- Questioning, freethinking, curious people
East London needs you!