| On the road with Hands on Science |
Personal ProfileName: Laura Janes Age: 27 Location: Pontypridd, Unviersity of Glamorgan
Job: Hands on Science Coordinator Company: First Campus
Education: School: Heanor Gate Secondary School, Derbyshire A'levels in Chemistry, Physics and Maths at South East Derbyshire College Degree in Physics and Medical physics at Cardiff University & PGCE Secondary Science at Bristol University
Date: 4/4/07 Location: Work, University of Glamorgan Title: On the Road
Saturday was the Sciencetriffic event at NEWI which is part of the Wrexham Science Festival, I went along with Ray Newberry, a lecturer in Food Science from UWIC to present a workshop on the science of chocolate (see photos on the News and Events page). It went down a storm with the families who attened! They got to learn about the process of tempering chocolate as well as tasting the results! Ray was able to give people information on different courses available in the area of food science as well as examples of different careers avaiable to graduates.
There were lots of other workshops and demonstrations happening through out the day including the prize presenation for the Hands on Sciecne Schools Radio Competition. On Monday I was in Bangor at the School of Chemistry at Bangor University. Here they were running 3 days of GCSE Chemistry revision for local seconday school pupils in Year 10. The day was really interesting as the pupils were taken into the labs to carry out lots of experiments as well as being given lectures on bonding, the Earth and plate techtonics, nano technology and a demonstartion of how to meka ice cream using liquid nitrogen! Each session was followed by a chance to complete exam questions with the help of their specially written revision guides and Chemistry students from the University.
Bangor University School of Chemistry
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