Started with a rocket launcher workshop given by Institute of Physics (Resources
here but you will need to register). Picked up some plumbing skills and made a cardboard rocket that flew well from Chadwick building to the ASE marquee!
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| Components from screwfix rather than NASA! |
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| Completed launcher (with blood stains!) |
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| Closeup of 'trigger' |
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| Chadwick Car park not Canaveral... |
With a bit of a dash I made it to a talk on literacy in science education. This had some useful ideas like using giant pipecleanrrs from pound shops to get across gene splicing concepts.
Next, I went to the ASE presidential talk on "science for all". Which was thought provoking (is science education for general scientific literacy or to train future scientists?).
Then after lunch I gave my second open conference talk on food security to a diverse audience.
Had another tour around the exhibition marquee and then off to the station for the six hour journey home...
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