Girls Taster Event as part of National Science Week.

Science Safari Event

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Held on 18th March 2005 at The Applied Sciences Department of Bradford College
Organised by Lets Twist in conjunction with the Department of Pure and Applied Social Sciences.

Introduction:

Lets Twist and the department of Pure and Applied Sciences at Bradford College organised the Science Safari event to celebrate National Science week. 32 female students from schools across Bradford attended the event on Friday 18th March in order to find out more about careers in science as well as to take part in practical activities and experiments and to meet other existing female students already studying science type subjects at the college. The Science Safari event consisted of 4 different 45 minutes workshops, creatively named:Hot stuff, Crime Theme, Site Bite and Quick March. Students participated in the hands-on-activities to explore which type of thermos flask was the most effective, how fit they were, who the murderer was at a crime scene and why their eyes sometimes deceive them. The overall aim of the event was to engage students in various workshops, which would encourage them to think about studying science as a subject, or maybe think of it as a potential future career and most importantly to realise that science is fun!

What the workshops were about?

Sitebite: In this activity of games and tricks, students were able to explore the different ways their eyes and their brain is tricked. (A perceptual exercise).

Hot Stuff: (A Physics exercise). Students had to work which hot drinks flask retained hot water the longest. Their task was to work out which flask they should take up to Mount Everest.

Crime Theme: (A Forensic Science exercise). How did the victim die?

Quick March: (A Biology exercise). What happens to the body when we exercise?