Last Sunday, March 25 drew the curtain on the 2007 Cambridge Science Festival. It was a two week grand event organised by cambridge for the public. Cambridge Science departments organised talks, lectures, hands-on activities and demonstrations for children and adults. Most of these programs are very innovative, interesting and informative! (Walau! Three "I"!) For instance, the "Bottle Your Genes" in Biology Zone, which helped you to isolate your own DNA, then you could bottle your genes and take them home with you. The Engineering department also got involved by helping children to design, make and test their own crane in "Crane Construction Challenge".
I didn't volunteer to help in making cranes nor other programs organised by different science departments. Indeed, there was no posters about this science festival seen in the Engineering dept, except a memo from the eng. dept. calling for volunteers in crane construction. The festival may target the public rather than university students. And I believe that there are calls for volunteering at different science departments for their own programs but not in the eng. dept. Therefore, i was not aware of this festival until Saturday morning on March17, which is the most popular day, I curiously followed a group of children to the Cambridge New Museums Site and bumped into the "Crash Bang Squelch!". 50 fun-tastic hands-on science experiments awaited for all ages (but i saw mainly children there) to "play" around. Since cambridge is small, i bumped into my new friend from Korea, Jihyun. She is a graduate student from the Cavendish laboratory in the Physics Dept. She was in the site demostrating how to build bridges.
All vonlunteers did a great job. They were very attentive and helpful in response to any of your queries, and of course to curious school children. In my case, i just simply threw a question to a volunteer regarding a bridge in cambridge that built without nuts and bolts; I watched it from a documentary TV program in Malaysia. The student tried to provide me as much information as he could, he then even pulled in one of his friend to join our discussion.
With their information, I have found out about this bridge. It is the bridge that i used to see everytime when i walked from the eng. dept. to the university library following Silver Street to Queen's Road. However, due to the bridge is full of nuts and bolts, i never made the connection of it with Mathematical Bridge that i knew, which its architecture should be self-balancing without the need of nuts and bolts to hold the planks.
That morning inspired me to get involved in this great event. Therefore, i volunteered on last Saturday (March24). ha! I was assigned as a "door keeper" for a lecture held in Isaac Newton Institute and went back with two science festival red t-shirts (the one with very big STEWARD printed at the back shown in the photo) and one mug with the face of Isaac Newton. They are free gifts from organisers of science festival and that lecture in Isaac Newton Institute, respectively :)
I didn't volunteer to help in making cranes nor other programs organised by different science departments. Indeed, there was no posters about this science festival seen in the Engineering dept, except a memo from the eng. dept. calling for volunteers in crane construction. The festival may target the public rather than university students. And I believe that there are calls for volunteering at different science departments for their own programs but not in the eng. dept. Therefore, i was not aware of this festival until Saturday morning on March17, which is the most popular day, I curiously followed a group of children to the Cambridge New Museums Site and bumped into the "Crash Bang Squelch!". 50 fun-tastic hands-on science experiments awaited for all ages (but i saw mainly children there) to "play" around. Since cambridge is small, i bumped into my new friend from Korea, Jihyun. She is a graduate student from the Cavendish laboratory in the Physics Dept. She was in the site demostrating how to build bridges.
All vonlunteers did a great job. They were very attentive and helpful in response to any of your queries, and of course to curious school children. In my case, i just simply threw a question to a volunteer regarding a bridge in cambridge that built without nuts and bolts; I watched it from a documentary TV program in Malaysia. The student tried to provide me as much information as he could, he then even pulled in one of his friend to join our discussion.
With their information, I have found out about this bridge. It is the bridge that i used to see everytime when i walked from the eng. dept. to the university library following Silver Street to Queen's Road. However, due to the bridge is full of nuts and bolts, i never made the connection of it with Mathematical Bridge that i knew, which its architecture should be self-balancing without the need of nuts and bolts to hold the planks.
That morning inspired me to get involved in this great event. Therefore, i volunteered on last Saturday (March24). ha! I was assigned as a "door keeper" for a lecture held in Isaac Newton Institute and went back with two science festival red t-shirts (the one with very big STEWARD printed at the back shown in the photo) and one mug with the face of Isaac Newton. They are free gifts from organisers of science festival and that lecture in Isaac Newton Institute, respectively :)
Jihyun with a creative little girl. They supposed to build a bridge, but the little girl seemed has her own preference and idea :)
Looking for "micro-prawn" in water samples from a pond.
Free T-shirt for volunteers of Cambridge Science Festival. I have two, one is M size and another is L size, which is reserved for my brother in Sabah :D
Met Ivan and his boy in this event. He is a very friendly and talkative guy, a good father too!
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