Wrexham Science Festival

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!

Let us know what you thought…

Did you attend this year’s Festival? Let us know what you thought by filling in our visitor survey.

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