Summer community events
Fun Science tries to help out local charities and community organisations by running workshops and activities for free or at a heavily discounted price whenever possible. This summer we spent a day running sessions for 150 girls aged 11-18 at a Guiding Event in Huish Woods, Taunton, Somerset. The girls were all given the opportunity to make their own rockets, raise their hair on our Van de Graff generator and learn a little about their own bodies with spirometers, lung capacity bags and blood pressure monitors. The following quote from one of the Guides (all of whom had been working their way around various activities throughout the day) summed up exactly what we at Fun Science are always trying to achieve.
"I was looking forward to the Fun Science least of all because Science is boring but it has been my favorite thing out of the whole day!" - Guide aged 14.
Fun Science were also very lucky to receive funding to work with some of the youngters who have recently started living on the brand new Wyndham Park estate in Yeovil and so Chemical Cress came along to do a couple of outdoor science sessions including rocket launches, illusions and chemical reactions. The primary aim of this event was to give the children on the estate, many of whom have moved to England from various European countries, a chance to get to know each other and to make friends with others in a similar situation to themselves. Fun Science helped to get the children interacting with each other through a range of activities whilst also getting them excited about science - the Mentos and diet coke experiment was a big hit!
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Graduation!
This summer, Cressida Bullock, the owner of Fun Science and the leader of many of the company's events, graduated from Bath Spa University with a 1st Class Honours degree in Biology. This was a very exciting day and you can see Cressida below, dressed in her graduation robes with a very big scroll!
Lots of new scientists join our team
With the increasing popularity of our holiday events it became necessary to increase the size of our team at these events. We were very happy to welcome back some familiar faces and have also taken on some new members of staff for holiday events. Pictured below are Krypton Katie, Mercury Mali, Helium Hattie and Chemical Cress after working extremely hard at our three summer fun days in Bath.
We have also been very excited to take on a new employee to cope with an ever increasing demand for Fun Science birthday parties. Our new party entertainer Hydrogen Hana has already received some fantastic feedback and, following extensive training, received the following review after her very first party!
"Could you pass on to Hana that she was very good and the children all loved it, I didn't know at the time it was her first time, and I wouldn't have guessed. (my husband told me later, she had told him) she was prompt, confident at talking to the children, and as my 3 year old said 'the science lady was very friendly' ! They all loved making the slime, getting certificates with their science names on and the experiments she did with mixing the household 'chemicals' . Particularly the green stuff that foamed out of the top. My son was delighted at being at the front helping, that was just what he wanted as birthday boy"
To find out more about our holiday events, birthday parties or other services please visit www.fun-science.org.uk or email info@fun-science.org.uk
