Brain Games

What are the Brain Games?

This project has been funded by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. They are lottery funded and government backed to promote creativity and lateral thinking amongst school children.

NESTA sponsored Explore-at-Bristol to bring out the creative spark in 100 pupils from local schools. For a whole week, at Bristol staff have been entertaining and enlightening the students from Speedwell School and Ashton Gate Primary School.

Welcome to the NESTA Brain Games website.

One hundred pupils from two Bristol schools were picked to take part in a week of activities within Explore-at-Bristol. First they learned all about the brain, then they created their own games based on what they'd learned… and all this in school time.

Each team came up with an idea for a game which was either based on the brain, or used different parts of the brain. Some created board games, some did TV game shows and others defined virtual reality games for computers and the TV. All the pupils worked in teams of 6 led by a 'mentor'.

On this section of the website you can

find out more on the special guests
try some brain benders
read some news on the brain
visit some other internet sites with our brain links
find out about the brain
look out how the internet used to market games
find out how Speedwell School did and look at their photo gallery
find out how Ashton Gate Primary School did and look at their photo gallery

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