THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S PROGRAMME AT THE BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL

FOR SCHOOLS &COLLEGES An inspirational opportunity to learn... The British Science Association is a registered charity with the Charity Commission No: 212479 and SCO39236

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The British Science Association’s vision is a society in which people are able to access science, engage with it and feel a sense of ownership about its direction. We provide opportunities for all ages to discuss, investigate, explore and challenge science, through our annual programme of events and activities, including the British Science Festival. Our standing in the world of science means that many eminent scientists are among the volunteers who work with us to deliver our programmes. For more information on the British Science Association please visit www.britishscienceassociation.org

The British Science Association is a registered charity: 212479 & SCO39236 This programme has been printed on FSC accredited paper using vegetable based inks. 2 WELCOME TO THE BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL

The British Science Festival is Europe’s largest celebration of science, technology and engineering. Each year it takes place in a different area of the UK. This year we are delighted to bring the Festival to Bradford in West Yorkshire. This year’s young people’s programme is brought to you in association with Space Connections Enterprises. Workshops, talks and shows, delivered by the best the UK has to offer, focus on the practical applications of science learnt in the classroom, offer students novel and fun ways to explore the world around them and open up a world of possibilities for careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

PLANNING AND BOOKING YOUR DAY AT THE BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL

BOOK EARLY! MAKE YOUR PAYMENT Activities and shows book up quickly. After booking you will receive confirmation of To avoid disappointment please book early. your booking, and an invoice. We will require payment before final a) Decide which day/s you would like confirmation is sent out at the end of August. to visit the Festival Please send a cheque, payable to the British b) Look at the event descriptions for the Science Association to British Science Festival, appropriate Key Stage and decide which Space Connections Enterprises, Victoria Building, you would like to attend. Note the 88 Thornton Road, Bradford BD1 2DX maximum number of places available and split your group as appropriate INFORMATION c) Consult the appropriate timetable. - Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 should book You will receive final confirmation, along with information regarding specific locations of events, into 3 activities details of coach parking etc at the end of August. - Key Stage 5 should book into up to 3 You must bring the final confirmation with you as activities You will also book into the proof of payment. Please advise when booking if hands-on exhibition during your day at you would like this information sent to an address the Festival other than the school address. d) Choose the sessions you would like to book. Remember to have 2nd and 3rd CREST ACCREDITATION choices in case your 1st choice is not Some of the sessions in the Key available Stage 2 programme have a CREST e) Call the booking line on 0845 652 2406 SuperStar/Star logo by them. These The booking line will be open from 3 May sessions have been accredited by the British Science Association’s Monday – Friday from 11.30 – 16.00. CREST Investigator scheme as they have a good practical element to them encouraging creativity and investigation skills. If your students complete this session it will count towards a CREST SuperStar/Star award. We will provide a sticker which students can record in their For more information visit logbooks. If you are not already involved in the scheme it’s a great introduction to the benefits it www.britishsciencefestival.org can bring to your classroom and to the students’ development. Find out more at or call 0845 652 2406 www.britishscienceassociation.org/creststar

COST: ONLY £5.00 PER CHILD (accompanying adults are free)

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SPECIAL ACCESS NEEDS LUNCH SAFETY AND SECURITY All venues for events, workshops and Students will be able to eat Please ensure that there is at least exhibitions in this programme are packed lunches in specific 1 adult to every 8 children in your fully accessible. However if any locations within the venue. party. The British Science Festival is member of your party has special Catering facilities will also be open to all so children should be access needs please let us know at available selling hot and cold accompanied by an adult at all the time of booking. drinks, sandwiches and snacks. times. Responsibility for the safety of pupils lies with the VENUE AND FACILITIES CLOAKROOM accompanying adults and not with workshop providers, British Science Events will take place at You are advised that there will Festival staff or Festival assistants. Bradford College, with some be no facilities for leaving coats activity for post-16 taking place and bags. STEM IN EDUCATION at the nearby University of EVENING Bradford campus. OTHER ACTIVITIES TUESDAY13TH SEPTEMBER 2011 The Young People’s Programme GETTING THERE Join the British Science Association is part of a wider celebration of and key STEM partners with a host Bradford College and the University science, engineering and of other national and local STEM of Bradford are located in the technology. Events for adults and providers to meet, greet and find centre of Bradford. families will take place from 10 – 15 out about the latest educational A drop off point for coaches will September. You can find more developments relating to be located at Bradford College. information about these events enrichment and engagement in Coaches will then be able to park on our website science, technology, engineering nearby. Specific details about drop www.britishsciencefestival.org. and maths (STEM). This session is a off points and parking will be sent For details of events of specific ‘must’ for any teacher or STEM with your final confirmation. For interest to teachers and educators professional, bringing together information about how to get to please see page 20. resources and new ideas in a Bradford College please visit friendly, informal session. To register https://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk for this event please email /documents/contact-us/ [email protected] HowToFindUs.pdf

CONTENTS

Key Stage 2&3 events 5-7 Key Stage 2&3 timetables 8-9 The British Science 10 Association award lectures HANDS-ON Key Stage 4&5 events 11-17 Don’t forget to book into the hands-on exhibition, where you will find a range of fascinating Key Stage 4&5 timetables 18-19 interactives for all ages. Events for teachers and educators 20 Established in 1831, the British Science Association Science, Technology, organises major initiatives across the UK, including the British Science Festival, National Science and Engineering and Mathematics 21 Engineering Week, programmes of regional and Support for Schools local events and the CREST programme for young people in schools and colleges. We provide Devise your own timetables opportunities for people of all ages to discuss, 22-23 investigate, explore and challenge science.

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Choose from a fascinating selection of fun workshops,+ breath-taking shows and entertaining challenges. Don’t2 forget to include a trip to3 the hands-on exhibition. Use the timetable on pages 8 and 9 to plan your day. You can find out more about the activities here.

ABBOTT FAMILY BASF KIDS’ LAB BRILLIANT SCIENCE BASF BANDROLLERS Chemistry is important for humankind’s ABBOTT future. That’s why we’ve created “Kids’ SHELL EDUCATION SERVICE Picture the scene. You are staring at the Lab” in 15 countries, where you can Make a wind-up toy (the bandroller) balloon ahead. Along comes a pointed learn about chemistry and science in a and then investigate the variables stick, slowly moving towards the fun, hands-on way. Little students and affecting how it works. balloon. You close your eyes, hands test tubes finally getting along? At over your ears. The anticipation grows BASF, we create chemistry CURRICULUM LINKS: Design technology, as the stick touches the balloon. You Transport shriek as you predict the bang, then all CURRICULUM LINKS: Chemistry MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 of a sudden...... the stick goes into MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 DURATION: 45 minute workshop the balloon on one side, out on the DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday other side and it remains intact without popping. Wow! You think ‘What DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, KEY STAGE: Two - Thursday; happened and, more importantly, how Thursday Three - Tuesday, Wednesday can I try it’. This is the starting point for a KEY STAGE: Two fun, hands-on, practical workshop packed with activities. BIRDS OF PREY THE CHALLENGER CURRICULUM LINKS: Scientific investigation, MISSION EAGLE HEIGHTS MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 60 ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY DURATION: 45 minute workshop A thrilling insight into the lives of some of How far can science reach? Do we nature’s most spectacular predators DAYS: Monday, Tuesday know more about other planets or the with ‘birdman’ Alan Ames. Meet a bald KEY STAGE: Two deepest trenches in the ocean? You eagle, peregrine Falcon, vulture, hawk are challenged to plan a research and barn owl and discover how their mission to the deep sea or Mars, environment influences their various thinking through key questions for all THE AIR SHOW adaptations. After meeting each bird scientific research – what do we most LM INTERACTIVE and seeing them fly there will be a Q & want to find out, how can we take A session. Explore and experience the pressure of measurements and bring them back, the atmosphere, and find out what what equipment do we need to invent CURRICULUM LINKS: Life processes and to make our mission successful, and happens in a vacuum. Discover what living things the pressure of the air has to do with how can we fund and publicise our MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 200 making a good cup of tea, how people research? first took to the skies and how DURATION: 45 minute workshop CURRICULUM LINKS: Marine science, knowledge of air pressure kick-started DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Astronomy and Space, Communication, the Industrial Revolution. The air show Thursday History and philosophy of science combines science, humour and history KEY STAGE: Two to bring the atmosphere alive – it’s a MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 25 real breath of fresh air! DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Wednesday CURRICULUM LINKS: Scientific enquiry, KEY STAGE: Three Cross curricular (Geography, History) MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 80 DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Monday, Tuesday Don’t forget to KEY STAGE: Three book in to the hands-on exhibition Birds of prey during your visit.

BOOKING LINE: 0845 652 2406 or visit www.britishsciencefestival.org 5 KEY STAGE 2+3 EVENTS (CONTINUED)

COULD IT BE MAGIC? FROM THE CHEW THE LIGHTWAVE LAB MONKEY PRODUCTIONS TO THE POO! ROADSHOW Explore scientific ideas and OPTOELECTRONICS technological developments by EUREKA! THE NATIONAL uncovering the truth behind magic tricks CHILDREN’S MUSEUM RESEARCH CENTRE and illusions. This challenging Follow the fascinating journey of a Join in a series of hands-on show draws inspiration from heroes of banana and peanut butter sandwich demonstrations and activities exploring science and engineering to discover the from the moment it is eaten to the communications and light: learn how ingredients which help make creative moment it leaves the body as waste. fibre optic broadband works and make people. Find out how saliva in the mouth breaks a water optical fibre. Make yourself ugly down food for it to be swallowed, how with mirrors and reflections. Find out how CURRICULUM LINKS: Science, Technology our bodies retain the vitamins and the eye works with our mind-boggling and Engineering, How science works minerals our bodies need and more optical illusions. Investigate the MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 100+ amusingly how it gets rid of what we difference between sound and light DURATION: 45 minute workshop don’t need. Key to all of this will be a waves with the Laser Bazooka. Split light healthy eating message and how DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, into its many bright colours and explore important vitamins are to our health. Wednesday, Thursday the different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from visible to KEY STAGE: Two - Monday, Tuesday; CURRICULUM LINKS: Biology, Food, the invisible in the UV cave. Three - Wednesday, Thursday Healthcare, Life processes and living things CURRICULUM LINKS: Physical processes: MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 70 light and sound COLOURFUL DURATION: 45 minute workshop MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 + teachers COLOURFUL CHEMISTRY DAYS: Monday DURATION: 45 minute workshop KEY STAGE: Two DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday BRADFORD COLLEGE KEY STAGE: Two Enjoy an extravaganza of flames, bubbles, colour and explosions. GOOD VIBRATIONS An interesting and highly visual LIVING IN SPACE demonstration involving colour changes, SOUND WORKSHOP energy changes and the production of STAR CENTRE solids, liquids and gases. GARY THE CLOWN Discover the effects of feeling weightless A fun workshop exploring how sounds and other conditions you would face as CURRICULUM LINKS: Chemistry, Materials are produced and how sounds travel, part of getting to and living in space. and their properties and connections in various musical You may be asked to volunteer to play MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 24 instruments. You will all get to play at particular roles. DURATION: 45 minute workshop least one gadget and take part in a fun musical competition. CURRICULUM LINKS: Earth, Sun and Moon DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 40 CURRICULUM LINKS: Scientific enquiry, DURATION: 45 minute workshop KEY STAGE: Two - Monday, Thursday Materials and their properties, Physical Three - Tuesday, Wednesday processes DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 KEY STAGE: Two - Monday, Tuesday; DURATION: 45 minute workshop Three - Wednesday, Thursday THE FIRE SHOW DAYS: Tuesday LM INTERACTIVE KEY STAGE: Two The Fire Show will answer all your burning questions about combustion: What burns MOBILES MADE SIMPLE and why? What kind of things will burn? JURASSIC JELLIES (BLACKBERRY HANDS- What do we need to have to get things to burn, how do we light fires, and what SCIENCE GIGS ON WORKSHOP) can we do with the energy we get from Come and make an insects-trapped-in- RESEARCH IN MOTION burning fuel? amber trifle! Put together layers of Ever wonder how your mobile phone goodies to show how creatures died a works? From Morse code to mobile CURRICULUM LINKS: Materials and their sticky death in fossil tree resin. (Please phones, communication systems have properties, Changing materials note for children with nut allergies made the world a smaller place. But MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 80 marzipan is used in this activity) how do these devices work? Explore DURATION: 45 minute workshop wireless technology and dissemble a CURRICULUM LINKS: Living things (insects), DAYS: Wednesday, Thursday BlackBerry. Materials and their properties KEY STAGE: Two MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 25 CURRICULUM LINKS: Scientific enquiry, ICT, DURATION: 45 minute workshop Communication, Waves and the DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, electromagnetic spectrum Wednesday, Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 Don’t forget to KEY STAGE: Two - Wednesday, Thursday; DURATION: 45 minute workshop book in to the Three - Monday, Tuesday DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, hands-on exhibition Wednesday, Thursday KEY STAGE: Three during your visit.

6 Science of SEE HEAR – THE the circus SCIENCE BEHIND LIGHT AND SOUND STEM COMMUNICATOR Terrific toothpaste What shape is a rainbow? Can a cup of coffee explain how humpback whales catch a quick dinner? Find out about the science behind light and sound, from how light and sound travel TERRIFIC TOOTHPASTE to how they can be changed and how they are used. Working in teams use BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION your sight and hearing to investigate CREST AWARDS these amazing and diverse subjects, Find out about toothy research with this then share your findings with the rest of hands-on activity. Developing skills in the group. Come along and find out if scientific enquiry and investigation, you you could navigate underwater and will make your own toothpaste from a how your sunglasses work. THE REAL SCIENCE basic recipe and decide on colour and flavour. You will then test your CURRICULUM LINKS: Physical processes: – OF THE CIRCUS light and sound toothpaste for a variety of different SCIENCE SHOWS FOR SCHOOLS properties including stain removal and MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 + supervisors texture to find the best. Spectacular juggling and balancing DURATION: 45 minute tricks are used together with lots of workshop CURRICULUM LINKS: Materials and their volunteer help to show how forces work DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, properties, scientific enquiry and combine when real circus Wednesday, Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 60 performers show off their skills. James Soper is a Guinness World Record KEY STAGE: Two - Monday, Tuesday; DURATION: 45 minute Holder for juggling and performs this Three - Wednesday, Thursday workshop spectacular combination of top-quality DAYS: Wednesday, Thursday circus skill and science education. KEY STAGE: Two STARDOME CURRICULUM LINKS: Physics, Forces Are you fascinated by the night sky? MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 150 In the StarDome you can not only WAX WONDERS DURATION: 45 minute workshop discover how to find the Plough and SHELL EDUCATION SERVICE DAYS: Tuesday, Wednesday the Pole Star you can also learn how Observe a burning candle and deduce KEY STAGE: Two - Tuesday; to find the North Star, Orion’s Belt and the chemistry involved. Then make your Three - Wednesday learn about the legends behind the Greek myths of the night sky’s own multi-coloured candle. constellations. CURRICULUM LINKS: Chemistry, Education, SCIENCE OF CURRICULUM LINKS: Astronomy and Material Science, Scientific enquiry THE CIRCUS Space, Physics, Science MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 Communication, History and philosophy DURATION: 45 minute workshop of science GARY THE CLOWN DAYS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 35 + teacher Learn all about forces as you play KEY STAGE: Two - Wednesday, Thursday; with circus toys, including spinning DURATION: 45 minute workshop Three - Tuesday plates and diabolos. Teachers will take DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, balloons back to the classroom to Wednesday, Thursday make animal shapes. KEY STAGE: Two - Wednesday, Thursday; THE WOOFYT – Three - Monday, Tuesday CURRICULUM LINKS: Scientific enquiry, WOODEN ONE- Materials and their properties, Physical processes OCTAVE ORGAN MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 FOR YOUNG DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Monday TECHNOLOGISTS KEY STAGE: Two UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD A hands-on workshop to discover the technology behind how a pipe organ makes sound.

CURRICULUM LINKS: Materials, Applied Physics, Cross curricular (Music) MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 DURATION: 45 minute workshop Stardome DAYS: Monday KEY STAGE: Three

BOOKING LINE: 0845 652 2406 or visit www.britishsciencefestival.org 7 TIMETABLE: KEY STAGE 2

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry From the chew to the poo From the chew to the poo From the chew to the poo From the chew to the poo The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow Living in space Living in space Living in space Living in space Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Science of the circus Science of the circus Science of the circus Science of the circus See hear-the science See hear-the science See hear-the science See hear-the science behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound

Mon 12th September Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey Abbott family science Abbott family science Abbott family science BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow

Living in space Living in space Living in space Living in space

Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic?

Good vibrations - sound Good vibrations - sound Good vibrations - sound Good vibrations - sound

See hear-the science See hear-the science See hear-the science See hear-the science behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound

The real science of the circus The real science of the circus The real science of the circus The real science of the circus Tues 13th September Tues Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey

Abbott family science Abbott family science Abbott family science

BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies

Fire show Fire show Fire show Fire show

The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow The lightwave roadshow

Stardome Stardome Stardome Stardome

Wax wonders Wax wonders Wax wonders Wax wonders

Terrific toothpaste Terrific toothpaste Terrific toothpaste Terrific toothpaste

Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey Wed 14th September Wed BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies

Fire show Fire show Fire show Fire show

Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers

Wax wonders Wax wonders Wax wonders Wax wonders

Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry

Stardome Stardome Stardome Stardome

Terrific toothpaste Terrific toothpaste Terrific toothpaste Terrific toothpaste

Thurs 15th September Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey Birds of prey

BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab BASF kids lab 8 TIMETABLE: KEY STAGE 3

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies

The air show The air show The air show The air show

Stardome Stardome Stardome Stardome

Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop

Mon 12th September WOOFYT WOOFYT WOOFYT WOOFYT

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies Jurassic jellies

The air show The air show The air show The air show

Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers

Wax wonders Wax wonders Wax wonders Wax wonders

Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry

Tues 13th September Tues Stardome Stardome Stardome Stardome

Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry Colourful chemistry

Living in space Living in space Living in space Living in space

Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic?

See hear - the science See hear - the science See hear - the science See hear - the science behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound

The Challenger mission The Challenger mission The Challenger mission The Challenger mission

Wed 14th September Wed The real science of the circus The real science of the circus The real science of the circus The real science of the circus

Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers Brilliant bandrollers

Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Living in space Living in space Living in space Living in space

Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic? Could it be magic?

See hear - the science See hear - the science See hear - the science See hear - the science behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound behind light and sound

Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop Blackberry hands-on workshop Thurs 15th September 9 THE BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION AWARD LECTURES

AS and A-level students will be inspired by our young Award Lecturers. Competition is fierce for these awards and nominees are judged on how interesting their research is and how well they can communicate it to a general audience. Expect a fascinating story of new research and lots of audience participation.

The Award Lectures take place at lunchtime each day. The five categories are:

Joseph Lister Award - Charles Darwin Award - Social sciences Agricultural, biological and medical sciences Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award - Engineering, technology and Lord Kelvin Award - industry Physical sciences and mathematics Charles Lyell Award - Environmental sciences

Visit the website www.britishsciencefestival.org Professor Brian Cox pictured won to be one of the first to find out who has won these prestigious the Lord Kelvin Award in 2006. Awards, and book in your group when you make your booking.

A MULTIMEDIA MATHEMATICS COMPETITION If you're a student from a secondary school in West Yorkshire then you are eligible for the X and Y Factor competition. Make a film clip, game, poster or write an article to show how intriguing maths can be. The competition will close in May 2011. Winners will be selected by the end of June 2011 in order that the best entries can be showcased at a glittering award ceremony at the National Media Museum on Tuesday 13th September 11.00 – 2pm during the British Science Festival. There will be great MYSTERY PRIZES and trophies. The competition is aiming to get students enthusiastic about maths. The process of making the ‘pop maths’ will engage students in maths in a novel way. For further details about the competition and a registration pack please e-mail [email protected]

10 KEY STAGE EVENTS

Choose from talks on cutting edge science, to hands-on+ workshops, or stimulating debate. Don’t forget to include a trip to the hands-on4 exhibition. Use the timetable5 on pages 18 & 19 to plan your day. You can find out more about the activities here.

A WHOLE NEW WORLD ARE YOU LIVING BARKS, BERRIES AND ON YOUR DOORSTEP... SUSTAINABLY? LEAVES: EXPLORING WATER@LEEDS, BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION HOW PLANTS FROM UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS GEOGRAPHY SECTION AROUND THE Explore the importance of peatlands as Sustainability is a buzzword of the 21st WORLD PROVIDE valuable habitats and landscapes as century. Are we squandering the well as carbon sinks to help mitigate PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS environment and using resources now climate change. Explore what will be to without thinking about the needs of AND MEDICINES many people a new world, looking at future generations? How far are you how peat is formed and how it traps BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR from living sustainably? Join us in this carbon, to its importance for plants PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY interactive quiz to discover what you and animals as well as for humans can do to live your lives in a more For thousands of years, humans have (through farming) and as a vital source sustainable way. used plants like the opium poppy of of freshwater for many. Get involved Western Asia, the coca plant of South recent and ongoing research that CURRICULUM LINKS: Environment; Climate America, Chinese ma huang, and involves both the water and change, Cross curricular (Geography) European St John’s Wort and lemon carbon cycles. MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 balm, as pain killers, stimulants, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety DURATION: 45 minute workshop CURRICULUM LINKS: Ecology, Habitats, medicines. Explore how plants have Cross curricular (Geography) DAYS: Thursday historically been used as psychoactive MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 KEY STAGE: Four medicines and how, more recently, DURATION: 1.5 hours – film,talk and scientists have recognised the potential discussion for finding useful psychoactive drugs in DAYS: Thursday ART OF NUMBERS plants. You will see how the active components of plants are extracted, KEY STAGE: Five BRADFORD COLLEGE identified, and can be chemically Join artists and mathematicians to modified to produce clinically useful explore the historic relationship between medicines. ANIMAL ENCOUNTER maths and art from Pythagoras and the BRADFORD COLLEGE Golden Ratio to Mandelbrot CURRICULUM LINKS: Mental Health, Brain visualisation. This event is linked to an Science, Chemistry, Medical Research Meet and handle different vertebrates exhibition where you can see what such as snakes, rats, axolotls and MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 100 happens when prime numbers influence salamanders and a wide range of DURATION: 4 hour session sound reactive open source software to invertebrates such as tarantulas, stick create a visual and audible spectacle. DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, insects, giant cockroaches and giant Wednesday, Thursday land snails. Find out how each species CURRICULUM LINKS: Maths, Art, History and KEY STAGE: Four - Monday, Tuesday; relates to the life cycle and life philosophy of science Five - Wednesday, Thursday processes. How have these animals MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 adapted to their environments? You will find out some unusual animal facts and DURATION: 1 hour talk plus exhibition reflect on their importance or DAYS: Wednesday significance to humans. KEY STAGE: Five Barks, berries and leaves CURRICULUM LINKS: Life processes, Biological structure and function, Adaptation and variation, Habitats, Environmental science MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 Don’t forget to book DURATION: 2 hour workshop in to the hands-on DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, exhibition during Wednesday, Thursday KEY STAGE: Five your visit.

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THE BIG SQUEEZE - BUILD A BRAIN PUTTING MATERIALS UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD UNDER PRESSURE This practical and interactive session starts with an overview of brain images CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AT (drawings, MRI, histological sections) EXTREME CONDITIONS AND and how these relate to the complex SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, 3D structure of the living brain. Following UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH the commentary and demonstration you will build your own brain, learning Consider this: the weight of the entire about the functions of each part, and atmosphere above your head amounts the diseases that can affect them. You to just one atmosphere of pressure... Build a brain can then take your brain home to bake Whereas 90% of the material in our solar in the oven. system is at pressures of more than 100,000 times this! When substances are CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Biology, under these kinds of conditions, very Medical Physics strange things can happen; oxygen MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 turns into beautiful red crystals and BLOODHOUND graphite can turn into diamond...Join BRADFORD COLLEGE DURATION: 2 hour demonstration and workshop the high-pressure researchers from the How can science, engineering, DAYS: Tuesday University of Edinburgh and discover technology and maths be used to how extreme pressure can be used to achieve the seemingly impossible, such KEY STAGE: Five create new materials and explore the as the BLOODHOUND 1,000 mph land history of the rocks beneath our feet. speed record? BLOODHOUND SSC (super sonic car) has been designed to CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Physics, FROM CRIME SCENE run at speeds up to 1,050 mph and Chemistry, Geology, Applied science being jet and rocket powered has TO COURT MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 133,000 ehp (about the same as 180 UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD DURATION: 1 hour talk and discussion Formula 1 cars). Find out how we use traditional DAYS: Monday CURRICULUM LINKS: Energy, Engineering- sciences (physics/chemistry/biology) KEY STAGE: Five Mechanical, A-level Maths as well as more novel scientific disciplines such as archaeology to MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 search and detect bodies and THE BIG BANG DURATION: 45 minute workshop unknown substances at a crime scene. DAYS: Monday, Tuesday BRADFORD COLLEGE KEY STAGE: Four - Tuesday; CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Physics, The Big Bang – what did it ever do for Five - Monday Chemistry, Biology, Archaeology you? Science is driven by humans’ MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 inherent curiosity about the world DURATION: 4 hours - a combination of around us in an attempt to answer the lectures/workshops (morning) with fundamental question, why are we BRADFORD ROBOTIC practical demonstration in simulated here? Find out how science has TELESCOPE indoor crime scenes in the afternoon. attempted to answer this question and DAYS: Wednesday explore the key scientific discoveries, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD how current scientific ideas and Find out all about the Bradford Robotic KEY STAGE: Five thinking have developed, and how Telescope and how it is used for modern scientists interpret these astronomy. Learn how to process notions. observations taken by the telescope DISCOVER THE and how to order your own images. CURRICULUM LINKS: How science works, Take part in experiments that you can CLOUD AND THE A-level Physics then try out with your own observations. WORLD OF APPS MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 Everyone who attends will get their own BRADFORD COLLEGE DURATION: 45 minute workshop log on for the telescope which they can continue to use after the session to Apple iPads are at the cutting edge of DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, explore the wonders of the cosmos. the world of computing. In this Wednesday, Thursday workshop you will learn about cloud KEY STAGE: Five CURRICULUM LINKS: Astronomy and computing and programming via the Space, IT and communications iPad, including developing apps. engineering, Science communication MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 60 CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Computing, IT, DURATION: 45 minute workshop Applied science DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 Don’t forget Wednesday, Thursday DURATION: 30 minute talk followed by a 1 hour workshop to book in to KEY STAGE: Four - Wednesday, Thursday; Five - Monday, Tuesday DAYS: Tuesday the hands-on KEY STAGE: Five exhibition during your visit.

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GAMES ON THE GO GOING FOR GOLD: HOLLYWOOD BRADFORD COLLEGE SPORT’S GREATEST SCIENCE – CRASH! Find out how mobile phone games are (PSYCHOLOGICAL) BANG! WALLOP! developed, focussing on the logic and graphics behind the games. SHOW ON EARTH BRADFORD COLLEGE ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY Be an action stunt designer for the day. CURRICULUM LINKS: IT and Design stunning car crashes and use Join our panel of speakers to discuss Communications Engineering, The Arts, data loggers to capture live data and the psychology of sport, focussing Cross curricular (Arts) use this to design high tech vehicles on taking part in the Olympics, from MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 25 that will withstand impacts. Witness preparation, through performing in the amazing chemical explosions and see DURATION: 2 hour workshop Games, and on to what happens to how it’s done in the movies. DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, athletes after retirement. There will be Wednesday, Thursday time for questions and discussion. CURRICULUM LINKS: Physics, Chemistry, KEY STAGE: Four - Monday, Tuesday; How science works Five - Wednesday, Thursday CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Psychology, Sports Science MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 12 MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 DURATION: 45 minute workshop GENETIC DURATION: 2 hours - series of speakers DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, ENGINEERING: HOW and discussion Thursday DAYS: Monday KEY STAGE: Four and five SCIENCE FICTION IS KEY STAGE: Five RAPIDLY BECOMING HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE FACT! HALSTEAD LECTURE - SCIENCE –JOURNEY BRADFORD COLLEGE THE EVOLUTION OF AROUND THE BODY This is an interactive event where you will isolate DNA from bacterial cells and WATER ON MARS BRADFORD COLLEGE get a basic overview of how genetic UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Star in your own zombie movie and engineering has progressed since its look at microbes that infect the human One of the most fundamental questions arrival in the 1970s, including some body using bioviewers, microscopes that we can ask is whether we are important medical advances that and prepared slides. You can also alone in the universe. Despite exploring have arisen due to genetic engineering make models of microbes and our solar system, and the recent and finishing with the remarkable antibodies. Why not have media make- discovery of planets around distant story of ‘Synthia’, the world’s first up applied to you to show the physical stars, the best chance of finding life synthetic organism. symptoms of different infections. remains with one of our closest Unearth bones and put the remains neighbours, Mars. It is therefore studies CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Biology: together to make a complete skeleton of the habitability of Mars that drive Genetics as well as make a giant jigsaw super and constrain the search for life in the MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 body - can you work out how many coming decade and beyond. dead bodies have been buried? DURATION: 1 hour workshop and Evidence of the history of water on Confront your fears and measure how discussion Mars is recorded in the rocks that we scared you really get using ECG DAYS: Tuesday see on the surface today, and this talk machines. KEY STAGE: Five will unravel the history of water and habitability of Mars by discussing the CURRICULUM LINKS: Applied science, geological exploration of the planet. Microbiology

GET UP AND GLOW CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Astronomy, MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 12 SDC COLOUR EXPERIENCE Geology DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Have you ever wondered what makes MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 Thursday a glow stick glow? Ever wanted to see DURATION: 1 hour talk and discussion just what’s inside them? Come along to DAYS: Tuesday KEY STAGE: Four and five find out the physics, chemistry and KEY STAGE: Five biology involved in making light in this fascinating workshop. The evolution of CURRICULUM LINKS: Materials and their water on Mars properties Physical Processes – characteristics of waves, electromagnetic spectrum MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 60 DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday KEY STAGE: Four - Monday, Tuesday; Five - Wednesday, Thursday

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HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE HOW TO PROTECT HUMAN TISSUE IN – WHODUNIT? YOURSELF ON THE INTERNET RESEARCH - ETHICS BRADFORD COLLEGE People nowadays disclose all sorts of AND ACCESS information about themselves online, the Be a forensic scientist for the day and consequences of which range from UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD solve a ‘Whodunit’ mystery using crime identity theft, information leakage and scene investigation techniques. You can There is a large and growing demand hacking, to blackmail, cyberbullying and for human tissue for use in biomedical analyse unknown substances using cyberstalking. Take part in an interactive research. Such tissues can help develop flame tests and chromatography and hands-on session in which we will learn better and safer medicines without check the area for radioactivity using about online personal information recourse to animal models. At the same Geiger counters. Identify the murder disclosure and the knock-on effect our time most tissue, e.g. from surgical victim by examining hair and fibres online social network activities may have procedures, is binned and incinerated under the electron microscope and on our vulnerability. as it is so difficult to access. Join us to investigate urine and blood samples to explore the ethics of using human tissue see if you can find out ‘Whodunit’. CURRICULUM LINKS: ICT, Ethics, Applied and what can done to improve access. science CURRICULUM LINKS: GCSE/A-level CURRICULUM LINKS:A-level Biology, Ethics MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 Chemistry, Biology, Physics and GSCE MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 DURATION: 1 hour workshop Applied Science DURATION: 2 hour debate and discussion DAYS: Monday and Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 12 DAYS: Monday KEY STAGE: Five DURATION: 45 minute workshop KEY STAGE: Five DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday KEY STAGE: Four and five HUMAN MUTATION: INSPIRING WOMEN THE GOOD, THE BAD, IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, HOW CAN PHARMACISTS AND THE INDIFFERENT ENGINEERING & MATHS SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY THE UKRC EXTEND YOUR LIFE USING All organisms suffer from genetic MEDICINES? mutation, sometimes this can be good An opportunity for any female students for the organism helping it adapt to its interested in pursuing a career in STEM UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD environment and sometimes it can be to talk to four inspiring women in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. Join us Explore how the life-style choices we bad, reducing its survival or reproductive potential. There are also certain for a buffet lunch talking to women in make can affect our health, from the STEM about your future career. effects of what we eat, to whether we mutations which make no difference to exercise and whether we smoke. What how fit the organism is. Humans have CURRICULUM LINKS: All sciences one of the highest mutation rates role can pharmacists play in promoting MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 healthy lifestyles? How can they make recorded but few of these mutations actually appear beneficial to us, instead DURATION: 3 hour workshop with speakers interventions to help people live longer we have a very high rate of harmful and networking. A buffet lunch will be and healthier lives and reduce the mutations. Join us to learn more about provided chance of patients developing life different types of human mutations and DAYS: Tuesday threatening illnesses? what effects they have on us. KEY STAGE: Five CURRICULUM LINKS: Healthcare, Risk, CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Biology Science communication MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 LAST NIGHT A DJ MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 DURATION: 1 hour talk and discussion DURATION: 2 hour workshop DAYS: Wednesday SAVED MY LIFE DAYS: Tuesday KEY STAGE: Five KEY STAGE: Five BRADFORD COLLEGE Get down to the beat using new technology to produce a piece of music and edit and manipulate sounds using drum machines and digital synthesisers.

CURRICULUM LINKS: IT and communications engineering, Cross curricular (Arts) MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 DURATION: 45 minute workshop DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Don’t forget KEY STAGE: Four - Monday, Tuesday; Five - Wednesday, Thursday to book in to Hollywood Science – the hands-on Whodunit! exhibition during your visit.

14 Molecules to human MINDREADING: HUMANS, BRAIN SCANNERS AND COMPUTERS LAUNCH OF SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, THE UK’S MOST UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Can we read other people’s minds? SUSTAINABLE STUDENT Psychologists are learning how people judge the minds of others. Neuroscientists are ACCOMMODATION devising methods for ‘reading’ people’s UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD thoughts from brain scans, with possible implications for lie detection. Computer The design of this building sets a new scientists are building sensitivity to the minds benchmark for how we can live of human users into the latest software, with sustainably, as well a new level of the aim of improving human-computer sustainable design and construction. interaction. Join us to discuss these scientific Don’t miss out on being the first people THE MARKS YOU LEAVE innovations, together with a philosopher who to see this unique development. Learn will place them in the context of about the project from conception BEHIND: THE FORENSIC longstanding questions about the ‘problem of other minds’. through to delivery - looking at the SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE engineering, design and final result. CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Psychology, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Computer Science, Philosophy CURRICULUM LINKS: Environmental Science, ‘Every contact leaves a trace’ (Locard). MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 Engineering, Construction Forensic scientists apply this principle to DURATION: 2 hours – series of speakers MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 prove (or disprove) links between crime and discussion scenes and individuals. Most people are DAYS: Monday DURATION: 1 hour talk and tour aware of fingermarks but there are also KEY STAGE: Five DAYS: Thursday many other marks left behind. In this workshop you will be working in the KEY STAGE: Five laboratory to apply chemical and MODELLING physical methods to examine evidence UNCERTAINTY from a crime scene and possible BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION LOST IN SPACE? suspects. This will include GENERAL SECTION chromatographic examination of inks, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, document examination, handwriting What do climate change, pandemic flu analysis, footwear comparison, and financial crises have in common? In UNIVERSITY OF YORK all these areas, crucial policy decisions fingerprints and chemical presumptive increasingly rely on inherently uncertain How do we learn our way around the testing. Your aim, by careful examination scientific models to make predictions - world and recognise familiar places of the evidence, will be to find who sometimes with controversial results. Join without getting lost? Take part in a live killed Father O’Reilly. the experts to look at the challenges of experiment to find the best explorers in using such models as a basis for CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Biology, the audience - people who can always practical policies and interventions, and Chemistry spot the same place when they see it what criteria should be used to judge MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 the wisdom and success of such actions. again, even in an alien environment. In DURATION: 2 hour Workshop the process we will learn about different CURRICULUM LINKS: Sociology. Science DAYS: Monday kinds of spatial memory, about the communication, Modelling KEY STAGE: Five different parts of the brain that are MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 involved and what they do. Finally, we DURATION: 2 hours – talks and discussion will use our live experiment to ask, are MATHS MAKES WAVES DAYS: Thursday men and boys are different from UNIVERSITY OF BATH KEY STAGE: Five women and girls? Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the MOLECULES TO HUMAN CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Psychology, death of Erwin Schrodinger who showed Biology that everything in the universe could, in a - A JOURNEY ALONG sense, be understood in terms of the MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 Schrodinger wave equation. Find out how THE DRUG DISCOVERY DURATION: 1 hour demonstration and waves and this equation play a AND DEVELOPMENT discussion fundamental role in the microscopic understanding of the quantum world. We PATHWAY DAYS: Thursday will then look at big waves in the ocean SCHOOL OF PHARMACY, KEY STAGE: Five (including Tsunamis) and the atmosphere. Finally we will look at soliton waves and UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD show how these will lead to new forms of Follow the progress of a drug from the communication. drawing board to the point of administration to the patient, through a CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Maths, Physics, trail around the University’s relevant labs Waves and clinical skills suite. MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Biology, DURATION: 2 hour series of talks Chemistry, Applied science DAYS: Tuesday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 KEY STAGE: Five DURATION: 2 hour workshop DAYS: Wednesday KEY STAGE: Five

BOOKING LINE: 0845 652 2406 or visit www.britishsciencefestival.org 15 KEY STAGE 4+5 EVENTS (CONTINUED) THE NATIONAL GALLERY PHOTON SCIENCE: ROBERT WINSTON WARD ROUND: SHEDDING LIGHT ON EXPLORES SCIENCE’S MEDICINE IN ART THE UNIVERSE BAD IDEAS BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION STFC We are born with the instinct to create MEDICAL SCIENCES SECTION Photon Science has grown out of our and invent. Indeed our ability to do so is See how medicine is historically depicted understanding of how light interacts with what separates we humans from the rest in a number of paintings in the National matter - from single atoms and molecules of the animal world. The moment we first Gallery. Either outright, with paintings of to large scale structures. Photons provide converted a stone to a useful tool set us doctors in medical teaching sessions, or a unique tool that can help us study an on a relentless path toward greater of people who are unwell but sometimes array of topics in chemistry, biology, power over our environment. But have more subtly. For example Bronzino’s physics, engineering and medicine. It has our creative ideas always produced famous painting of the allegory of Venus allowed us to view individual atoms, desirable results in line with their original and Cupid is thought to represent syphilis accelerate particles, look at key good intention? Have they really served and the famous painting by Massys of the biological protein structures, and perform us well? Join Professor Robert Winston as Grotesque old woman, or the Ugly life-changing operations. This session aims he talks about his new book Bad Ideas?. Duchess as she has often been called, to highlight just some of the ground- has recently been shown to depict breaking photon science and examine CURRICULUM LINKS: Ethics, History and Paget’s disease. the current and future impact of this philosophy of science science on our lives. MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Biology, Art, DURATION: 1 hour talk CURRICULUM LINKS: Applied science, A-level History of Art DAYS: Monday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: Physics 30 KEY STAGE: Five DURATION: 1 hour talk MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 DAYS: Wednesday DURATION: 2 hours - series of speakers and discussion. There are 2 sessions which will KEY STAGE: Five ROBOCOP – A MYTH cover different areas. You can book into one or both. More information is available OR A MATTER OF TIME? NATURE’S INGREDIENTS at www.britishsciencefestival.org BRADFORD COLLEGE DAYS: Monday Explore the link between advancements FOR SKIN CARE KEY STAGE: Five in science, technology and crime- busting. From bio-data to psychological BRADFORD COLLEGE techniques, science and technology Skin care is a multi-billion pound industry are interwoven into police work on a but how did our great grandmothers daily basis. cope? Come and learn how to make Robocop – a myth or your own basic skin care products using CURRICULUM LINKS: Social policy, natural organic products found in a matter of time? Psychology & Social, Communication, the kitchen. IT and communications, Engineering MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Chemistry, 1 Applied science DURATION: 1 /2 hour workshop MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 DAYS: Wednesday DURATION: 2 hour workshop KEY STAGE: Four DAYS: Wednesday KEY STAGE: Five ROOTS TO SHOOTS ROOTS TO SHOOTS OF MICE AND MEN - Deepesh and Ragad, two 19 year old UNDERSTANDING students have just come back from an ANIMAL RESEARCH expedition in America and the uninhabited West Amazon Rainforest. The recent study on Animals Containing QUANTUM COMPUTING They have been researching Human Material has shown that the AND QUANTUM deforestation and its impacts on general public have little access to medicine. But on the way, they’ve information about how and why GM TECHNOLOGIES picked up information about sustainability animals are used in research. Join us for UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD for business and young people, and you an introduction to genetic modification, will be the first people to find out about focusing on the development of GM Quantum computing has attracted a their exciting adventures. Find out how to mice, how they are bred and why they lot of interest from the media. This extract drugs from plants and why it’s so are important to scientific discovery. introduction to the quantum world will demystify this area of cutting difficult to turn them into medicines. CURRICULUM LINKS: Biology, Science edge research. CURRICULUM LINKS: Biology, Life processes Communication CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Physics and living things, Applied science MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 sustainability DURATION: 2 hour series of talks and MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 150 discussion DURATION: 1 hour talk DURATION: DAYS: Thursday 45 minute workshop DAYS: Wednesday DAYS: KEY STAGE: Five Tuesday, Wednesday KEY STAGE: Five KEY STAGE: Four - Tuesday Five - Wednesday

16 RUTHERFORD AND THEATRE OF DEBATE: 100 YEARS OF THE Sustainable living PHARMACOGENTICS ATOMIC NUCLEUS WORLD PREMIERE STFC (REHEARSED READING) Celebrating the centenary of Ernest Rutherford’s famous paper in which he Y TOURING THEATRE COMPANY described the internal structure of atoms. This world premiere of Y Touring’s new Rutherford explains for the first time the script provides a unique opportunity to existence of a tiny dense nucleus at the explore complex issues surrounding centre of every atom which contains pharmacogenetics. With 99.98% of all the stuff we see in the pharmacogenetics looking like the future Universe. The session will be a celebration of health-care and personalised of not only this paper but the fields of medicine becoming a reality the ethics atomic, nuclear and particle physics that of tailoring medicine to fit an individual’s were born because of it. genetic makeup becomes more pertinent. Explore a range of ethical, CURRICULUM LINKS: A-level Physics, History legal, regulatory, social and scientific of Science issues raised by this topic. MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 50 SUSTAINABLE LIVING CURRICULUM LINKS: Genetics/Genomics, DURATION: 2 hour series of talks and Healthcare, Ethics, Medical Research discussion UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 120 students + DAYS: Wednesday Debate and discuss issues relating to teachers human impacts on climate change and KEY STAGE: Five DURATION: 2 hour session resource depletion, and explore some of the possible solutions by means of a DAYS: Wednesday variety of hands-on projects including KEY STAGE: Four SCIBERBRAIN PRESENTS making biodiesel from used cooking oil, BRAIN CHEMISTRY creating soap, turning potatoes into plastic and exploring the possibilities of BIOMEDICAL SOCIETY building an eco house. WHAT THE OPTOMETRIST Debate the issues and ethics surrounding SAW: EXPERIENCE THE the use of cognitive enhancers. No prior CURRICULUM LINKS: Environmental issues, knowledge of the subject is required. Sustainable development LATEST OCULAR Teachers will also learn handy MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 TECHNOLOGY techniques for facilitating debates on DURATION: 2 hour workshop BRADFORD SCHOOL controversial issues in science. DAYS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday OF OPTOMETRY AND VISION KEY STAGE: Five CURRICULUM LINKS: GCSE Biology, Ethics, SCIENCE Applied science Become an optometrist for an hour MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 25 during this hands-on clinical workshop 1 DURATION: 1 /2 hour workshop TO BE OR NOT TO where you will have the opportunity DAYS: Wednesday, Thursday BE: ETHICS OF to use ophthalmoscopes and bio KEY STAGE: Four microscopes as well as scientific REPRODUCTIVE techniques to get a glimpse of another MEDICINE world at the back of the eye and the equally important structures that focus SOUND AT UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD the light on the retina. Take part in tests THE EXTREMES Join us in the lab to discover the facts to assess the many different facets of behind how reproductive medicine has vision and examine your own visual SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE developed, and discuss the issues quality using colour and 3D vision tests. Join us as we journey from one extreme surrounding this controversial subject. to the other, from high sounds to low How old is too old to have a baby? Is it CURRICULUM LINKS: Biology, optics, lenses, sounds, loud to quiet, nice to nasty. Test every woman’s right to have a child, How science works yourself. Are you the loudest audience naturally or not? Who decides who MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 20 member, the highest, or maybe you should or who shouldn’t be given help to DURATION: 1 hour workshop have the sexiest voice? Using interactive conceive? demonstrations and live sound DAYS: Tuesday experiments we investigate all the CURRICULUM LINKS: Ethics, History and KEY STAGE: Five amazing properties of sound and what philosophy of science, A-level Biology, we might be using it for in the future. Religious Studies MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 30 CURRICULUM LINKS: GCSE/A-level Physics, DURATION: 1 hour workshop Don’t forget Science Communication DAYS: Thursday MAXIMUM NUMBERS: 150 to book in to KEY STAGE: Five DURATION: 45 minute workshop the hands-on DAYS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, exhibition during Thursday your visit. KEY STAGE: Four - Wednesday, Thursday; Five - Monday, Tuesday

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SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life

Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop

Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit

Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body

Games on the go (2hr session) Games on the go (2hr session)

Barks, berries & leaves (4 hour session)

Mon 12th September Get up and glow Get up and glow Get up and glow Get up and glow

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life

Get up and glow Get up and glow Get up and glow Get up and glow

Barks, berries and leaves (4 hour session)

Games on the go (2hr session) Games on the go (2hr session) Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body

Tues 13th September Tues BLOODHOUND BLOODHOUND BLOODHOUND BLOODHOUND

Roots to shoots Roots to shoots Roots to shoots

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Robocops (1 1/2 hour workshop) Robocops (1 1/2 hour workshop)

Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop

Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit

Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body

Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope

Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes

Sciberbrain presents Brain chemistry (1 1/2 hour workshop) Sciberbrain presents Brain chemistry (1 1/2 hour workshop) Wed 14th September Wed

Theatre of debate (2 hour Workshop) Theatre of debate (2 hour Workshop)

SESSION 1 (10.00-10.45) SESSION 2 (11.00-11.45) SESSION 3 (12.00-12.45) SESSION 4 (1.45-2.30)

Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope

Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop - crash, bang, wallop

Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit Hollywood science - whodunit

Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science Hollywood science - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body - journey around the body

Sciberbrain presents brain chemistry (1 1/2 hour workshop) Sciberbrain presents brain chemistry (1 1/2 hour workshop)

Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Are you living sustainably? Thurs 15th September 18 TIMETABLE: KEY STAGE 5

Mon 12th September 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45 Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Bloodhound Bloodhound Bloodhound Bloodhound Animal encounter Animal encounter The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang

Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Going for gold: sports, greatest psychological show on earth Mindreading: humans, brain scanners and computers (1.00 - 3.00) Robert Winston explores How to protect yourself The big squeeze science’s bad ideas on the internet Photon science: Shedding light on the Universe - pt 1 Photon science: Shedding light on the Universe - pt 2 The marks you leave behind Human tissue in research - ethics and access

Tues 13th September 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45 Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Sound at the extremes Sustainable living Sustainable living Animal encounter Animal encounter The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang How can pharmacists extend your life? How can pharmacists extend your life?

Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope Bradford Robotic Telescope

Halstead Lecture - Build a brain The evolution of water on Mars Discover the Cloud and the world of Apps Maths makes waves Genetic engineering Genetic engineering What the optometrist saw! What the optometrist saw! Inspiring women in science, engineering and technology

Wed 14th September 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45

Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Animal encounter Animal encounter Games on the go Games on the go The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Barks, berries and leaves Sustainable living Sustainable living Molecules to human - A journey along the drug Art of numbers discovery and development pathway The National Gallery ward Human tissue in research - ethics and access round - medicine in art Roots to Shoots: Roots to Shoots: Roots to Shoots: Human Mutation: the good, From drug discovery to Of mice and men From drug discovery to From drug discovery to the bad and the indifferent the Amazon rainforest the Amazon rainforest the Amazon rainforest Rutherford and 100 years of atomic nucleus Nature’s ingredients for skin care Crime Scene to Court (pt 1) Crime Scene to Court (pt 2)

Thurs 15th September 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45

Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Last night a DJ saved my life Get up and glow Get up and glow Get up and glow Get up and glow Animal encounter Animal encounter Games on the go Games on the go The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Barks, Berries and Leaves Sustainable living Sustainable living Modelling uncertainty Lost in Space? Quantum computing and A whole new world - on your doorstep quantum technologies To be or not to be: Ethics of How to protect yourself reproductive medicine on the internet Launch of UK’s most sustainable student accomodation 19 EVENTS FOR TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS

The following events will be of interest to anyone involved in science education at all levels. To find out more about these events please visit our website www.britishsciencefestival.org

TUESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER, THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, 19.00 – 20.00 10.00 – 12.00 16.00 – 18.00 SCIENCE EDUCATION LEARNING AND THE SECONDARY IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN SCIENCE CURRICULUM BradfordPLANNING boasts one of AND the largest BOOKINGAdolescence YOUR is a time of great IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE BlackDAY Asian AT and THE Minority BRITISH ethnic SCIENCEchange hormonally, FESTIVAL physically, There is a widespread belief communities in the UK, with a psychologically and socially and among members of the general large Muslim population. Join a yet this is the time in a young public and scientists that the panel including physicist, author person’s life when teachers and secondary science curriculum in and presenter of ‘Pathfinders: The parents expect them to be able to England does not meet the needs Golden Age of Arabic Science’ learn the most. Are our of modern science or of society Professor Jim Al-Khalili, to discuss expectations unrealistic? If you generally despite, or possibly the significant contributions that work or live with teenagers then because of the many changes diverse communities have made why not join renowned which it has undergone in the last to science. Learn more about neuroscientist Professor Sarah- 20 years. This debate, chaired novel approaches to engaging Jayne Blakemore to find out what by Professor Sir John Holman, will with young people from diverse the latest in cognitive give an opportunity for such fears communities by exploring a recent neuroscience can tell us about to be aired and challenged. case study focussing on a what’s really going on in the successful science curriculum adolescent brain. Location: University of Bradford enrichment activity called ‘Cultural Understanding of Location: University of Bradford Science’.

Location: University of Bradford Don’t forget the STEM in Education evening (see p4)

BOOKING LINE: 0845 652 2406 or visit www.britishsciencefestival.org

20 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS STEMNET can help teachers in Yorkshire and Humber to inspire students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through STEM Ambassadors, STEM Clubs and STEM Enrichment Activities. Read on to find out more.

Nationally coordinated by STEMNET

STEM AMBASSADORS STEM CLUBS STEM ENRICHMENT Ambassadors are an invaluable NETWORK ACTIVITIES and free resource for teachers The STEM Clubs Network exists Your school or college can and schools. They offer their to help you get a STEM Club benefit from a wide range of time voluntarily to enthuse and up and running in your school, national and regional STEM E&E inspire students within schools Activities, including those about STEM subjects. or if you already have one to support you in maintaining mentioned on the STEM Your local STEM Ambassadors and developing it. Directories website Management contract holder (www.stemdirectories.org.uk) can help you decide how best The STEM Clubs Network is free to employ an Ambassador. to join. To find out more about The North West, Yorkshire and the Humber are home to a range of STEM Ambassadors can help in a STEM Clubs, or to request help well-established STEM activities wide variety of ways including: to set up a STEM Club at your including: school visit www.stemclubs.net. helping you within class CREST Awards activities Engineering Education explaining how they use Scheme science, technology, engineering or maths within Smallpeice Trust their working lives Residential Courses participating in careers events Arkwright Scholarships assisting with STEM Clubs or For advice on STEM Enrichment Challenge days activities please get in touch with your local contact or in whatever activity you www.stemnet.org.uk/ have in mind! To find out more about how volunteer STEM Ambassadors can help you to inspire your students, or to request an ambassador, your local STEM Ambassadors contact.

For more information visit www.stemnet.org.uk/content/ stem-ambassadors

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