On Thursday 21 and Friday 22 June the whole School – from Nursery to Sixth Form – took part in the St Chris STEM Festival 2018.
Pupils took part in a huge range of workshops across the two days including:
- Flash Bang Science
- Visit to Wobbly Bottom Dairy
- Molecular Gastronomy – Chemistry in Cooking
- Chain Reaction Dominos
- The Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Degradation
- Le Festival des Sciences/ El Festival de las Ciencias
- Dissection Masterclass
- Plants, Potions & Poisons
- Bugs in Boxes
- The Science of Swimming and the Physics of Floating
- Eggcelent Constructions
- Extreme Paper Bridge Building
- Survival Skills
- Sugarcraft Botany
- Science Research Ethics Debate.
- Origami Organelles
- Orienteering
- Discovering DNA
- Puzzling Maths
- Bread Making
- Fire investigation Talk
- Making Rockets
- Spectroscopy in a Suitcase
- Team Building with the Fire Brigade
- Mathmagics
- A Visit to Letchworth Brewery
- Ice Station Andy
- Pyramid Building
- Our Natural World Photography
- Birds of Prey Demonstration and Talk
- Film Screening: Gorillas in the Mist and Copenhagen
- Air Traffic Control
- Stability of Dams
- The Rotating Parrots
- A Trip to Building Research Establishment (BRE)
- Building Hedgehog Homes for St Chris
On the Friday the Junior School also took part in a dress up day with a “natural world” theme.
To see the full festival programme please download here:
Download STEM Festival Workshops 2018 (1.88 MB PDF)
Funds raised by the STEM Festival cake sale were donated to the Hitchin Hedgehog Preservation Society – https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/
Thanks to all those who helped run workshops over the two days.
