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Caithness Science Festival
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2006
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2006 Science Festival
Caithness Science Festival 2006 - Book Now As Places
Limited In addition to the busy schedule of Schools events over the period 20-24th march Caithness Science Festival committee has organised the following public events: All the shows and workshops feature professional presenters
Tuesday 21st March in Pulteneytown Academy Wick (7-9pm) Wednesday 22nd March in the Private
Function Room Mackay’s Hotel, Wick (6.45 - 8.45 p.m.)
Thursday 23rd March Mount Pleasant Primary School,
Thurso The new ‘Body and Bones Show’ comes from the Edinburgh International Science Festival’s Touring Programme and has been sponsored by Highland 2007. This is a lively interactive show that allows you to meet interesting characters including Skully the Skeleton. We are delighted that Francis Chapman of SetPoint North at Aberdeen University will again be presenting her Fun Maths workshop. This involves solving either alone or in groups a variety of puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty. There is also the possibility of a Fun Maths relay race. Peter and Marjory Craig, from Aberdeen, are very experienced Earth Sciences presenters who have entertained and educated over 10,000 attendee’s and achieved excellent reviews. Their workshop features an interactive presentation about Scotland’s Journey from near the South Pole revealing the story behind the clues contained in the wide diversity of Scottish rocks. The workshop includes hands-on activities using real rock, fossil and mineral samples. Although the workshops and shows are primarily aimed at the 7-13 age group, parents and interested adults are very welcome too. The content will be adjusted to suit the audience. Admission is free but places for each event are limited and must be reserved for each event, contact Nicola at KP Technology Ltd: Tel 01955-602777 or [email protected] . Please arrive promptly. |
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2005 Science Festival 13 March 05 Science Festival Gets Going - John Thurso MP Looked In The Science Festival got going today at Wick High School. John Thurso MP looked in and stayed for one of the Urrgh Shows (Chemistry with plenty of catalysts and fast yucky results). All the primary schools in Caithness will have children looking in either at Wick High or when it moves over to Thurso High. There were plenty of hands on experiments to try out from checking out your knowledge of electricity, magnetism or anatomy and much more. This is science with FUN but the principles are all hard facts and a great way for young folk to learn about what is around them and make them think. In addition during the week there are maths talks at the schools designed to show that you can get a lot out of this subject and show enjoyable the subject can be. Now where's that chemistry set.............. |
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2004 Science Festival |
About Science 03 The 2003 and 2004 events were a great
success and in the region of 1600 children and adults were educated and
entertained. the key activity was provided by Satrosphere of
Aberdeen who have a large range of exhibits demonstrating many science
principles. The Royal Society of Edinburgh provided maths and
geology workshops in local schools and there were engaging talks from
Prof. Alan Jamieson of RSE and Willie Watt of Subsea 7, on the subjects of
resonance and offshore engineering. |
21 October 04 Culham education outreach manager Chris Warrick enjoyed meeting the students and said “I feel both Louis and Alisdair learnt a lot from the trip – on how the science they study in the classroom can be applied in a research environment” Marie Mackay, Dounreay Communications said “UKAEA are delighted to sponsor this event which gives senior pupils at a local school an insight into the work at a science research centre. UKAEA Dounreay also sponsors the primary section at the festival, this year it was won by Primaries 6 & 7 of Crossroads and Canisbay Primary Schools.”
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2004 Science Festival
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Contacts Pat Kieran Iain Baikie Frank Dennis Doug Mackay Paul Cariss |
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