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University of Kent takes Cool Physics to schools

More than 500 year 7 - 9 pupils in Kent are to have fun while learning with the University of Kent's Cool Physics Road Show between Monday 10 and Friday 14 March.

The Road Show, which is part of the University's Sciences@Kent initiative, the aim of which is to raise the profile of science across schools in the region, will involve a one-hour interactive demonstration that deals with expansion and contraction, changes of state, the effects of low temperature freezing on different substances, and superconductivity. The demonstrations will include freezing organic material such as bananas and flowers with liquid nitrogen and inflating balloons with solid carbon dioxide.

The Cool Physics Road Show will visit Spires Academy and Marlowe Academy on Monday 10th (10-11am and 1.15-2.15pm respectively), Abbey School and Axton Chase School on Tuesday 11th (11.15am-12.15pm and 2.15-3.15pm respectively), Chaucer Technology School and Simon Langton Boys School on Thursday 13th (11.15am-12.15pm and 1.40-2.40pm respectively), and Pent Valley Technology College and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls on Friday 14th (10-11am and 1.30-2.30pm respectively).

The event coordinators Dr Gaby Roch, Subject Specialist from the University's Faculty of Science, Technology & Medical Studies, and Steve Walls, a technician from its highly regarded School of Physical Sciences, will be helped by undergraduate student ambassadors and members of the University's Partnership Development Office.

The Road Show coincides with National Science and Engineering Week.

Professor Peter Jeffries, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology & Medical Studies, said: 'The Cool Physics Road Show will demonstrate that science is fun as well as serious, with the Road Show team providing engaging and excellent examples of how physics is relevant to us all.'

Contact: mediaoffice@kent.ac.uk

Story published at 11:04am 10 March 2008