The Grantham Climate Art Prize 2025
More than 500 young people aged 11–25 submitted entries to this year’s Grantham Climate Art Prize. This year’s theme was Design the Future: From Grey to Green, inspired by Imperial’s sustainability strategy.
OVERALL WINNER: ‘Viridescent Window’ by Plaifah Chaisen (1st year undergraduate, Dyson School of Design Engineering)
RUNNER UP, AGES 15–18: ‘Let’s Go Back to Our Roots’ by Kescheka Rajeekaran
JOINT RUNNER UP, AGES 11–14: ‘Don’t Let the Grey Take Over’ by Liam du Plessis
Outreach at 50
The Outreach at 50 series honours Imperial’s longstanding commitment to schools outreach, sharing the stories of the people who have helped young people raise their aspirations since 1975.
Find out more about Imperial’s 50-year history of schools outreach, including full interviews with all the people pictured here and many more.
Professor Sinclair Goodlad, whose 1974 proposal for a student tutoring scheme led to the Pimlico Connection, the first organised schools outreach activity in the UK (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Vanessa Madu, Imeprial PhD student and former Mathematics undergraduate, who first came to the university aged 14 as part of the four-day Insights Summer School (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Sunday Popo-Ola, Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who has spent decades working with local school children to increase representation in STEM (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
José Monteiro, Coordinator in the Outreach team, who has been the driving force behind Imperial’s STEM Potential programme for over a decade (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Professor Sir Robin Grimes FRS, who led schools outreach in the Department of Materials, creating a weekly schools programme and delivering demonstrations to primary school pupils (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Yemi Abe, Design Engineering undergraduate and Student Ambassador who has revolutionised the African Caribbean Society’s outreach work (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Vittoria Dessì, 4th year civil engineering student, and Student Ambassador supporting Outreach programmes like STEM Potential, the Summer Schools and the Maker Challenge (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Professor Ramón Vilar,Vice Dean for Research in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, who was instrumental in developing Imperial’s summer schools (Photo credit: Jason Alden)
Maker Challenge finals, April 2025
The Maker Challenge is a programme for local young people, giving them the opportunity to develop an idea and see it through to creation. It takes place in the The Dangoor Reach Out Makerspace at the White City Campus. (Picture credit: Fergus Burnett)
The Maker Challenge is a programme for local young people, giving them the opportunity to develop an idea and see it through to creation. It takes place in the The Dangoor Reach Out Makerspace at the White City Campus. (Picture credit: Fergus Burnett)
The Maker Challenge is a programme for local young people, giving them the opportunity to develop an idea and see it through to creation. It takes place in the The Dangoor Reach Out Makerspace at the White City Campus. (Picture credit: Fergus Burnett)