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Knutsford SciBAr -
Out and About At Events
"Daresbury Science Festival " Exhibition at Daresbury Labs 2008
Knutsford
SciBAr went to set up stall at Daresbury Science Festival where in a sizeable
area
we ran stalls on Dragon Visual illusions and gave away dragons for the kids
to make at home , Chaotic Pendulums -which caused much surprise and amusement,
a stall to promote the planned new SciBArs at Didsbury and Chester and enthusiastically
manned by Beatrice Downing and our "piece de resistance" the "
Rocket Trip to the Moon", designed and created by our resident engineer
Roger Gittins. You can see some of the different reactions to our VERY LOUD
rockets in the pictures. The stalls were kept very busy and our SciBArian volunteers
had a very enjoyable day as did the children . The show overall had some superb
stalls exhibiting lots of interesting Science experiments including the ever
popular lecture /experiment called "Exploding Custard".The team consisted
of Roger Gittins , Terry & Kevin Griffiths , John and Jane Cartmel, Graham
Barlow, Beatrice Downing and myself
..........................................................................................Hey!
that rockets going to explode
...This looks like Fun ...
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........This looks Interesting!.....
To watch
Rocket video click here .... ....................
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watch Exploding Custard video click here .... .......................
-----Some of the team with the Dragons.......
"SCIENCE
EXPLOSION" Exhibition at the WORLD MUSEUM 
_LIVERPOOL
..........6th & 7th
October 2008
Knutsford SciBAr recently attended The" Science Explosion" event run by the BA for Children at The World Museum Liverpool to launch the 2008 BA Festival 2008. Following on previous themes we took with us a rig designed and built by SciBArian Roger Gittins(middle below). The children first made and decorated their rocket nosecones to to fit to the rocket then fire their pop bottle rockets over the heads of the crowd in the Gallery at The World Museum. During the peak 5 or 6 hours Rockets were being fired by the children at just less than one / minute and 250 children had the pleasure of firing their own rocket. It's a bit scary standing there with the trigger string in your hand - see right. TV science guru Adam Hart-Davies (see left) showed a healthy interest in the SciBAr launcher
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here to see rocket launch
The SciBAr stall was manned over the weekend by volunteers(including Christine Skinner (right) & led by SciBArian David Skinner(left) who also arranged for the manning of a stall designed and built by SciBArian Chris Grice demonstrating various chaotic ,jointed and linked pendula and their strange behaviour. At the end the Knutsford SciBAr team were exhausted but exhilarated
"Daresbury Rocket Competition at ChesterRacecourse
In
July 2008 Knutsford SciBAr entered several rockets made by various SciBArians
into a competition to see which rocket could carry a RAW EGG the furthest without
breaking the egg. The winner was Graham Barlow( shown second from left )with
winning rocket). He achieved 160m with the wind against him. Graham is also
famous (or infamous) for eating the noble " Joe Egg" who was the first
ever surviving egg during testing. This ignominious act nearly got him thrown
out of the team. The favourite before the event was Roger Gittins but unfortunately
none of his eggs survived on the day. Distances of well over 200m had been achieved
with a surviving egg in the testing phase. The SciBarians also took the Alka
Seltzer Space rocket launcher to entertain children entering for the schools
competition whilst they awaited their turn in the competition
.rocket test movie -click here
"Daresbury Festival " Exhibition at Daresbury Labs 2007
In
2007 Knutsford SciBAr
ran a stall at Daresbury Festival to entertain the children and teach a little
bit about what's out there in Space. The children had to make and decorate rockets
based on 35mm film canisters . The rockets were then loaded with Alka Seltzer
and taken to the Triple Launcher ( made by SciBarian Graham Barlow) and launched
at images of various Space objects. If the rocket hit a target AND the child
could identify the object he/she won a small prize. Nice weather ensured it
was an enjoyable day for all.
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