Celebrating science at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is a free annual celebration of science and the arts each summer in South Kensington, led by Imperial College London.   

Visitors could enjoy hands-on workshops, interesting talks, performances and installations from iconic museums, research and culture organisations in South Kensington. 

It was a pleasure to be exhibiting again this year in the World Science Zone, an area dedicated to allowing visitors to experience and discover pioneering projects from every corner of the planet.  

Our stand featured various communication tools, such as our card game “Mozzie Drive”, the “Swarm” sonification, live mosquitoes and larvae allowing visitors to come face-to-face with mosquitoes. Visitors were also able to play Target Malaria: The Game, which is now available for free download in the App Store and Google Play Store. The game allows the player to enter a simulation laboratory, which has been modelled after our real laboratory, and play a module to experience the process of microinjection. The game is  available for free download and you can find out more about its development.     

Some of our researchers were on hand at the Target Malaria stand to chat with visitors and, above all, to answer any questions they might have about mosquitoes and malaria. We also invited back our former interns, whom we had recruited as part of the 10,000 Black Interns initiative. 

The festival was a great opportunity for Target Malaria to engage with the public, who were of all ages and backgrounds, to let them know about the project and our vision of a malaria-free future. Thank you to everyone who visited our stand!