4 July at Sutton Grammar School London Show Guide Welcome Workshop Roadmap The Big Bang is a UK-wide programme led Who’s presenting workshops? What are they presenting? by EngineeringUK to bring science and engineering to life for young people. Sutton Grammar School ROVs The Big Bang celebrates and raises the profile of young people’s achievements in Overton Grange School Lego Mindstorm science and engineering and encourages more young people to take part in science, Sutton High School Analysing Disease Outbreak technology, engineering and maths initiatives with support from their parents The Stemettes HTML and teachers. Greenshaw High School Chemical Clocks The Big Bang London is part of The Big Bang Near Me, a programme of events which take place across the UK to enable Nonsuch High School for Girls Rocket Cars (Bloodhound SSC) young people to discover close to home St Philomena’s Catholic High Rocket Launching the exciting and rewarding science and Schools for Girls engineering careers that their science and maths subjects can lead to. It is delivered Carshalton College Construction Skills. by Seventh Corner and Sutton Grammar School. The Big Bang’s flagship event, The Big Bang UK Thames Water Routing Water Young Scientists & Engineers Fair will take place Astrophysics Talk at The NEC, Birmingham, National Space Academy. 15–18 March 2017. Bletchley Park The Enigma Machine King’s College Hospital NHS Extracting Strawberry DNA trust Contents Workshops 3 Showfloor Roadmap 4 Meet the Exhibitors 6-11 + Backpage fun! 2 3 Showfloor Map 1. Nick Sayers- Graphic Design 14. WES (Women’s Engineering 2. Air Products 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Society) 3. Ewell Astronomical Society 12 15. London Centre For 4. QMUL Engineering & Material Nanotechnology Science 16. Dungeness Power Station 5. QMUL Electronics & Computer 17. KCL Biomedical Engineering Science 3 22 23 24 13 18. The British Postal Museum 6. ICL Royal School of Mines 21 19. Institute Of Civil Engineers 7. ICL High Energy Group 14 20. Stixx 8. Institution of Engineering and 2 25 26 27 28 21. Understanding Animal Research Technology 15 22. UCL Chemistry 9. Centre for Hydrology and 23. Institute Of Cancer Research Ecology 1 24. Young Scientists Journal 10. Royal Society Of Chemistry 25. ECH Engineering- Cool Science 16 11. Omega Holidays 20 19 18 17 26. Heathrow Airport 12. ICL Planetarium 27. Subsea 7 13. Atkins Global 28. NFTO Cycling 4 5 Meet the Exhibitors Pathways to Medicine What’s particle physics? A three-year course is for highly motivated state-school students ASK!... from low and middle-income homes who have the academic “High energy physicists at experiments potential to achieve the grades for medical school What A-Levels should I choose? like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Apply from September 2016! [email protected] Where can I get work experience? rely on particle accelerators to study the laws of nature at temperatures What’s best about where you work? which haven't existed since the big Young Scientists Journal is written, edited bang. At this stand you can find out and run exclusively by students aged 12-20. how those accelerators get particles We have lots of opportunities from editing to to nearly the speed of light and talk design to web development. Applications are with scientists working at the LHC and other major international experiments welcomed from students based anywhere in STEM Potential the world! about what we do with them once A four year course for students from year 10 up. The they get there.” You should write a small application to the program includes lectures, subject specific workshops and journal preferably no longer than a non-residential summer school. Apply from September 5000 characters in length and submitted 2016! [email protected] to [email protected]. This application allows you to demonstrate your passion for science and related fields, skills, overall Young Scientists Journal ambition and writing ability. Conference Thursday 18th October 2016 St Anne’s College, Oxford events.ysjournal.com/tickets/ young-scientists-journal- conference-2016/ How does a fridge work? Refrigerators use the principles of pressure, boiling and evaporating of a fluid in a circuit in the refrigeration pipework to remove heat and reduce the temperature inside the fridge. 6 7 What have you discovered? What websites do you Who have you met ? want to go to? Where will you go to find out more? 8 9 Meet the Exhibitors How does graphic ASK!... What is nanotechnology? What’s the approximate normal water depth to which design involve STEM? Subsea 7 can safely send down one of their divers, before the atmospheric pressures becomes too much? What material - 20 meters - 200 metres makes the best What’s the most Where is Dungeness? - 2000 metres bicycle frame? What are the main types of engineering Subsea 7 do? When did the British energetic particle at - Mechanical and civil (*correct answer) Postal service start? CERN? Is nuclear energy safe? - Chemical and biological - Electronic and nano-tech How many What does the acronym ROV stand for? planes land - Rigid Offshore Valve What’s Mars made of? - Retractable Oil Vent What’s a gravitational wave? Where can I in one hour - Remotely Operated Vehicle ASK!... learn more? at Heath- row? ASK!... What’s the How does sun cream protect difference us against UV-light? between a How does sun cream protect us How heavy comet and Save the date against UV-light? is an Airbus an asteroid? The Big Bang London Week A380? 3-7 July 2017 We will be returning next summer: 5 July - Westminster Kingsway College ASK!... What’s the most Air Products is a world-leading Industrial Gases company celebrating 75 years of operation. The 6 July - Newham College effective cancer company’s core Industrial Gases business provides TBC - Uxbridge College treatment? atmospheric and process gases and related equipment + a South London venue to manufacturing markets, including refining and petrochemical, metals, electronics, and food and Register interest: beverage. Air Products is also the world’s leading london@ supplier of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment. The company’s Materials Technologies thebigbangfair. business serves the semiconductor, polyurethanes, co.uk cleaning and coatings, and adhesives industries. 10 11 What have you discovered? 12 13 See you at The Big Bang UK Young Scientist & Engineers Fair, 15-18 March 2017 in Birmingham! Keep in touch... The Big Bang Competition (formerly Heats take place here at regional the National Science + Engineering Big Bang Fairs and projects can Competition) is a national competition also be entered online from July to for lots of young people to showcase October 2016. their impressive science, technology, thebigbangfair.co.uk/london engineering and maths (STEM) Want a second chance? If you didn’t projects and to reward and recognise get a place in the finals through the their achievements. It is open to UK regional Fairs, why not have a second residents in full-time education go by entering online? You can also facebook.com/thebigbang4u or training (years 7-13 and Scottish/NI improve your project between the equivalent). regional and the online heats. twitter.com/bigbangfair Don’t forget to check out the projects Winners from the regional Fairs and at today’s Fair! online heats will showcase their projects to thousands of visitors at the national finals atThe Big Bang Fair, twitter.com/TBB_London 15-18 March 2017 in Birmingham. youtube.com/thebigbangfair Find out more about the competition and how to enter online: www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/competition Tell us about your experience on Facebook or Twitter! The trade mark BIG BANG is the property of Big Bang Limited and is used here under licence. facebook.com/thebigbang4u twitter.com/bigbangfair BB_Near Me_Show Guide Advert.indd 1 31/05/2016 11:22 Backpage Fun! Enigma Wordsearch 1. Find each of these Enigma parts and the English equivalents in the grid: WALZEN → R____ (5) UMKEHRWALZE → R________ (9) STECKERBRETT → P_________(9) 2. 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