Exciting news about Wrexham Science Festival 2012!

Planning for this year’s Festival is well underway, and we have loads of fantastic events already lined up. This year the Festival is running throughout the first week of the school summer holidays, so there will be plenty to keep the kids occupied and kick-start the summer holidays with a bang, as well as activities of a more grown-up variety…

Highlights include:

Special Olympics themed events, including the return of the Science Junkies with their brand new show uncovering the physiology and sports engineering that make an Olympic and Paralympic athlete a champion
From the makers of ‘Amoeba to Zebra’, the world première of new show The Clockwork Universe, exploring the history of science from ancient Greece to Albert Einstein through the power of pop music, lyrics, stunning visuals and, of course, daft costumes
Interactive shows and workshops for all the family, looking at the maths behind 3-D surfaces, the science of sound waves and vibrations, field archaeology and much more
A whole host of talks and lectures covering everything from the history of the electric car to future of the internet, and lots more in between

Full programme details will be announced in May, but stay tuned for more exclusive updates!

Special Events for Schools

This year’s Primary Schools Programme will take place from Friday 9 March until Friday 16 March, in line with National Science and Engineering Week.

The week-long event will be packed full of presentations, demonstrations and workshops aimed at challenging pupils from across Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire to engage with science – from investigating healthy eating and learning how our bodies work to discovering how to harness the power of light to design and construct a solar powered fariground ride, and much more. There’ll also be the chance to get up close and personal with Gwawr, the Welsh Solar Car!

The Secondary Schools Programme – a dedicated programme of events for secondary school pupils, designed to suit all knowledge levels and abilities – will run from Monday 11 June until Friday 6 July.

For more information contact Islwyn Griffiths islwyn.griffiths@cwne.org or Liz Edwards-Jones liz@tqg.org.uk

The Wrexham Science Festival Schools Programmes are organised by Careers Wales, Techniquest Glyndŵr and Glyndŵr University.

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Bloodhound Experience Wrexham

We were delighted to welcome the Bloodhound Super Sonic Car team to Glyndŵr University in Wrexham on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 November, for an exclusive Wrexham Science Festival spin-off event.

A full-scale prototype of the car, which is being designed to run at speeds of up to 1,050mph and will attempt to break the land speed record in South Africa next year, was available to view in the University's Performance Car Workshop.

A series of educational presentations and workshops were held across the two days for primary and secondary schools, as well as sessions for FE students and for Glyndŵr University’s Performance Car and Motorsport students.

The Bloodhound Project’s director Richard Noble OBE, himself a land speed record holder between 1983 and 1997, gave a public lecture about the project to a packed out William Aston Hall on Wednesday evening.

A special event for businesses was held on Thursday morning, and featured a presentation by Rocket Scientist Daniel Jubb, whose hybrid rockets, designed especially for the Bloodhound car, are being manufactured here in Wrexham.

Thanks so much to our partners, sponsors and supporters, in particular Glyndŵr University, Techniquest Glyndŵr, Glyndŵr Innovations, Yale College, Barloworld Handling Ltd. and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Click here for more information about the programme of events.

Dates for Wrexham Science Festival 2012 announced

The next science festival will be held from Thursday 19 to Friday 27 July 2012. Visit the Glyndŵr University website to see the official announcement.

Get involved

We are constantly on the lookout for new ideas and talented speakers to keep our festival alive, and to continue inspiring the local community. Click here for more information about how you can get involved in WSF 2012.

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Wrexham Science Festival

We welcomed record numbers of visitors to our events and were delighted to hear so many people had enjoyed them.

We’ll have more information very soon on the forthcoming visit of the Bloodhound supersonic car project. In the meantime you can still browse the events which we hosted at this year’s festival – we’ll have plenty more to enjoy next year!

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The survey should take no more than five minutes to complete, and will help us ensure that the next Festival is even better.