• Question: do you go to schools and do experiments with them

    Asked by chanelknowles to Rick, Colin, Charlotte, Becki on 26 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Rebecca Scott

      Rebecca Scott answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      I have done some events with young people. I helped the RSC Belgium section (Royal Society of Chemistry) at an event called ‘Green light 4 girls’ where we showed students how to make an acid/alkali indicator from red cabbage water, and what happens when you make cheese. I also did a demo with the pXRF (portable X-ray Fluorescence spectrometer – thing that looks like a ray gun) at a public lecture, to see if we could identify any fake pound coins in the audience.

    • Photo: Charlotte Dalton

      Charlotte Dalton answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      not at the moment, we have had some schools visit our uni chemistry labs this week though and they had a great time and we have people who go into schools to talk about chemistry and do experiments

Comments

  • Photo: Colin

    Colin commented on :

    Not personally, though older pupils will come to visit sometimes and I will tell them about various aspects involved in my work and demonstrate particular experiments. It is a bonus if they work thought!