The 2024 Cambridge Festival will feature two days of exciting and FREE talks, workshops and hands-on activities for school students (KS2 and KS3) in West Cambridge.
Schools can book for one, two or all three of our main talks alongside a whole host of other exciting workshops!
Thinking Mathematically: 10am – 11am
Charlie Gilderdale and Liz Woodham from the NRICH team will invite students to work together on some of their favourite mathematical problems.
Hands-on Climate Action: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Join Dante McGrath and Yashasvi Raj from the Centre for Climate Repair for a fun and educational session, where you can discover how to protect the Earth from global warming.
Can you blow up the Sun, and other dastardly space questions: 1pm – 2pm
What happens if you throw someone into a black hole? Could you crash the Moon into the Earth? Everything you ever wanted to know about space (but were so very afraid to ask) awaits.
Visit the Department of Veterinary Medicine, and our pioneering animal hospital at the Department of Veterinary Medicine
11:30-12:00pm / 1pm-1:30pm
Fun with food chemistry at the Department of Chemical Engineering
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
Renewable Energy Exploration at the Department of Chemical Engineering
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
“Chemistry Mystery” Escape Room at the Department of Chemical Engineering
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
Heat Matters – the science of temperature, structure and materials at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm
How to code like a DJ with Sonic Pi: introduction & live demo
11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
Ultraprocessed foods – What are they and why should we care?
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
Deepfakes and AI-Generated Media
11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
Fashioning Druids from Caesar to Today (Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut)
10am-10:30am / 11:30am-12pm / 1pm-1:30pm
Hands-on activities
10am-2pm
If you have time between our workshops and talks, we have an array of drop-in hands-on activities taking place in the open spaces across the West Hub. There’s no need to book! Activities include supplementary table-top activities from NRICH, infection games, building telescopes and more!
Hands-on Climate Action: 10am – 11am
Join Dante McGrath and Yashasvi Raj from the Centre for Climate Repair for a fun and educational session, where you can discover how to protect the Earth from global warming.
Thinking Mathematically: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Liz Woodham and Charlie Gilderdale from the NRICH team will invite students to work together on some of their favourite mathematical problems.
Can you blow up the Sun, and other dastardly space questions: 1pm – 2pm
What happens if you throw someone into a black hole? Could you crash the Moon into the Earth? Everything you ever wanted to know about space (but were so very afraid to ask) awaits.
Visit the Department of Veterinary Medicine, and our pioneering animal hospital at the Department of Veterinary Medicine
11:30am-12pm / 1pm-1:30pm
Heat Matters – the science of temperature, structure and materials at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm
Inheritance, DNA, and Heart Disease - a craft workshop
10am-10:45am / 11:30am-12:15pm / 1pm-1:45pm
Fashioning Druids from Caesar to Today (Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut)
10am-10:30am / 11:30am- 12pm / 1pm-1:30pm
Hands-on activities:
10am-2pm
If you have time between our workshops and talks, we have an array of drop-in hands-on activities taking place in the open spaces across the West Hub. There’s no need to book! Activities include using colours from the ancient world, investigating whipworm eggs and more!
Click here to book your place now! https://forms.office.com/e/r0xq7BiK8L
Main talks and workshops must be booked in advance. Hands-on activities do not need to be booked in advance and are designed as filler activities for those who are attending other talks and workshops. You must book at least one activity to access the site. You cannot just attend hands-on activities.
Please allow yourself enough time to get from one activity to another. You can find practical information about the day in our Teachers’ Pack, including other ideas of what to do while on a visit to Cambridge.
If you'd like more information about our free schools' days, including updates of additional workshops, museums to visit and more please sign up to our mailing list: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/6DCF-ACG/schools-events-list
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