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04/11/2008
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A just held science festival and a new club have demonstrated their ability to inspire large numbers of young people in engineering and physics
, but both are looking for some engineering sponsorship, to go with the support they are currently dependent on from pharmaceutical companies.
Gareth Marshall, director of the Kent Festival of Science, the 28th such show he has helped put on, told us there that as well as such events, he and his business partner and fellow former teacher, John Coad, have started a new venture called Test Tube, which he described to us, as, “An opportunity for young people to join the scientific community with their parents”. Every month, participants receive an experimental kit. Planned kits include: “Voltage Vegetables”, in which fruit and vegetables are used to produce usable electricity; a solar powered car, which can then be customised to take part in UK wide competitions, and, “Mad Materials”, which change colour and shape.
As well as getting people interested in engineering related topics when they are at an impressionable age – our picture shows what can be done with Bermoulli’s theorem – Marshall explained how the Test Tube offers an opportunity to harness the enthusiasm of the young to take part in UK wide research projects. Participation in the Test Tube costs £2.25, which is, “Heavily subsidised”.
More information at: http://www.sciencefestival.org.uk and http://www.keystagesolutions.co.uk
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Tom Shelley
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