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Outreach Events
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology is committed to engaging the public in our research. Each year we carry out several activities with this in mind. Many of these are with High School teachers and students, but others are with the general public. Below you will find brief reports on our recent activities. Outreach 2010
Parents Like Us (8-9th May) We had a large number of willing volunteers for the Parents Like Us Festival down at Leith Links (http://www.parentslikeus.co.uk/). The Science Tent, organised by Hille Tekotte, contained a whole range of activities including creepy crawlies (snakes, snails, maggot racing), smelly bottles, feelibox, lifecycle puzzles, “feed the shark”, fossil casting, pipetting and pH measurements. Outreach 2009Parents Like Us Festival (9-10th May) This year the Science Tent at the Parents Like Us Festival at Leith Links was aided by a record number of volunteers (more than forty centre volunteers!)(http://www.parentslikeus.co.uk/). The Science Tent, organised by Hille Tekotte, contained a whole range of activities including creepy crawlies (snakes, snails, maggot racing), smelly bottles, feelibox, lifecycle puzzles, “feed the shark”, fossil casting, pipetting and pH measurements. Whilst saturday was rather wet and windy, Sunday was much better and a great time was had by all! Outreach 2008From 9th-10th May 2008 we ran a science activity tent at the Parents Like Us Festival on Leith Links (http://www.parentslikeus.co.uk/) which is aimed primarily at parents with young families (children aged 0-10). This included "creepy crawlies", red cabbage water pH experiments, "float or sink", making fossils from Plaster of Paris, "whose mummy am I?", and art activities. The tent was organised by Hille Tekotte, and run along with members of the School of Biology’s Science Communication Team. Outreach 2007On March 5th 2007 several members of the Centre (including Bill Earnshaw, Robin Allshire, Hiro Ohkura and Kevin Hardwick) spent the evening at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh at a workshop organised by Rachel Hillman (from the Wellcome Trust's Public Engagement Development Group). Also at the meeting were eight TV and Radio producers/broadcasters, and the aim was to help shape the Wellcome Trust's broadcast strategy and see how it could best play a role in facilitating the relationship between scientists and broadcasters. The meeting was a very positive experience for all, and a number of strategies were discussed including the need to find innovative platforms for pure/basic science. |