| Brilliant Brain Week | Date(s): 12th March 2011 (10:00) to 16th March 2011 (17:00) | Venue: At-Bristol (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: At-Bristol celebrates all things brainy for Brilliant Brain week! Meet local neuroscientists from Bristol University and take part in lots of intriguing and interesting activities to find out more about your brain and how it works. |
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| Science Pub Quiz | Date: 15th March 2011 (19:30) | Venue: Golden Guinea (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: Come along for our very own pub quiz! Teams of up to 4 people, with a Mystery Prize for the winners. Entry fee of £1 per person.Follow us on Twitter for breaking news @brisandbath_sci |
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| Communication through History | Date(s): 15th March 2011 (10:00) to 18th March 2011 (14:30) | Venue: Gloucester Folk Museum (Google map) | Town/City: Gloucester |
| Description: National Science and Engineering Week is a fantastic opportunity for your pupils to explore Science outside of the classroom and learn about the world around them in a different setting. This year Gloucester Folk Museum along with other venues across the country will be exploring the topic of Communication. Each Communication session lasts around ninety minutes and involves practical hands on activities.In this session pupils will explore: • Reading paintings and portraits. Signs and Symbols in Art • Communication without language – Early Man, Cave paintings, Foreign explorers • Ship’s communication before radios • The Victorian postal service • WW2 code breakers |
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| The Science of Communication | Date(s): 15th March 2011 (10:00) to 18th March 2011 (14:30) | Venue: Gloucester Folk Museum (Google map) | Town/City: Gloucester |
| Description: National Science and Engineering Week is a fantastic opportunity for your pupils to explore Science outside of the classroom and learn about the world around them in a different setting. Each Communication session lasts around ninety minutes and involves practical hands on activities.In this session pupils will explore: • How sound is created and travels • Different forms of communication (Morse code, semifore, body language, importance of colours) • Animal communication (Singing insects, changing body colours, dancing bees) • Communication through different senses |
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| BLOODHOUND SSC Lecture | Date: 16th March 2011 (18:00 to 20:00) | Venue: University of the West of England (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: Bristol City Council, the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the ss Great Britain Trust have won a bid to build the world’s fastest car – BLOODHOUND Super Sonic Car (SSC) in Bristol. The car BLOODHOUND SSC with its cutting edge of technology is already inspiring future engineers and designers. Richard Noble, the project leader and a previous world land speed record holder will be talking about the latest developments in the project. |
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| Matt Parker Stand up Mathematician | Date: 16th March 2011 (19:00 to 20:00) | Venue: University Hall (Google map) | Town/City: Bath |
| Description: Matt Parker is a highly enthusiastic Mathematician whose life goal is to make people more excited about Maths. Using a range of presentations and hands-on activities, he communicates Maths in a very engaging and entertaining way. Matt talks about Mathematics for organisations including the Royal Institution and the BBC and he was the People’s Choice Award in the 2009 national Famelab competition. His favourite number is currently 496. |
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| Bath Taps into Science 2011 | Date: 18th March 2011 (11:00 to 15:00) Date: 19th March 2011 (10:30 to 16:00) |
Venue: founders hall & Green park station (Google map) | Town/City: Bath |
| Description: Bath Taps Into Science is an annual Science Fair held in Bath. This year the event will be held on Friday 18th March (11am – 3pm) 2011 at the University of Bath and Saturday 19th March 2011 (10am – 4pm) at Green Park Station in Bath. We have lots of exciting activities including a slime Stall, Lego robotics, making bubbles, a liquid nitrogen show, maths puzzles, maths buskers science bustkersand lots, lots more.Entrance is free and you don’t need a ticket – just turn up. |
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| Experience Changing Perspectives | Date: 19th March 2011 (09:00 to 17:00) | Venue: Circomedia (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: A free, interactive exhibition for families. Watch aerial circus performers, learn about how they accomplish their extraordinary feats and discover how your body works with TV presenter Alice Roberts. Take part in body painting and talk to local researchers from the University of Bristol about cutting edge research – in anatomy and physiology, neuroscience, robotics and biomechanics – happening in your city. |
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| Com-museum-ication! | Date(s): 19th March 2011 (11:00) to 19th March 2011 (16:00) | Venue: Gloucester Folk Museum (Google map) | Town/City: Gloucester |
| Description: Science Spectacular! Learn about communication with lots of fun, hands on experiments for you and all your family to try. Whether you a Scientific starter or a Scientist supremo you are bound to find something you’ll enjoy. |
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| At-Bristol’s Bang and Boom show | Date(s): 27th November 2010 (10:00) to 15th May 2011 (17:00) | Venue: At-Bristol (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: Celebrate the International Year of Chemistry with the Bang and Boom show!Expect bangs and blasts, flames and fizzes a plenty as At-Bristol explores the wonders of chemistry with the Bang and Boom show. How do you make nylon? What burns on water?All these questions and more will be answered – it is sure to be explosive fun! Watch out for the special ‘slimetastic ending’! |
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| At-Bristol’s Winter night sky | Date(s): 14th December 2010 (10:00) to 14th March 2011 (17:00) | Venue: At-Bristol (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: Immerse yourself in the wonders of the Winter night sky as you are led on a magical tour around the Universe.Discover dusty planets, Orions belt and Seven Sisters all from the comfort and warmth of the At-Bristol Planetarium! |
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| All About Us | Date(s): 11th March 2011 (10:00) to 31st December 2015 (31:31) | Venue: At-Bristol (Google map) | Town/City: Bristol |
| Description: At-Bristol launches a new £1.5 million exhibition ‘All About Us’. The All About Us experience will feature over 50 new hands-on science exhibits, including real body parts, allowing you to test human phenomena and engage in real science. Visitors will be able to investigate how their brain and bodies work together and how we relate to people and the world around us. New exhibits will include Soundbite – where you can listen to music through your headbones, Vein Viewer – see your own veins under the vein ray, Digestive Run – feed the skeleton and see how nutrients pass through your bodies, Startle – capture your startled face on camera and email the video home to friends and family and many more! Plus with Live Lab you will be able to carry out live experiments including DNA extraction and even dissections.Discover just how amazing you really are in this new family-friendly exhibition! |
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