Sevenoaks School enjoyed a successful Science Week from 15 to 19 March. We welcomed some 1500 visitors from Primary Schools, along with every Sevenoaks pupil.

Highlights of the week included:

Young Engineers competitions for Primary and Secondary Schools
Ahmed Kotb the organiser for the day brought resources for 80 local Primary School students in the morning to fulfil the brief of manufacturing a bridge out of Knex that would span a specific gap as well as open up for passing boats with the aid of a bolt-on motor. The students thoroughly enjoyed the event and although some of their designs were more ‘elaborate’ than needed they all fulfilled the required need.

Titan the Robot
Titan was a real luxury for us as he was quite expensive to hire, yet we managed to offer two shows during our normal school day and timed it either side of 2 shows already taking place to allow students arriving and leaving from those to experience the event too. This enabled us to have an audience of over 1000 students and more than 40 staff present. The mechanical wonder wheeled its way through the school, closely followed by several hundred students, before leaping off and talking, singing, squirting and a whole host of other actions to the delight of our student body and visiting guests.

Visiting Russian Cosmonaut Dr Alexander Martynov
Dr Alexander Martynov spent 24 years as head of the ballistics department for the Russian space programme. Dr Martynov had a large part to play in Space Station Mir, knows the majority of Astronauts by their first name and offered a whole host of stories of his experiences in and around the space programme for the majority of his life. With homemade videos of life aboard a space station as well as his inspirational talk on the plans afoot for the manned mission to Mars the entire audience was captivated from the very beginning.

Inflatable Planetarium
Techniquest Science Museum in South Wales offered a 45 minute session within the inflatable planetarium for 32 students every hour for 2 days during our event. Both days were fully booked by local Primary Schools within 3 days of the brochures being mailed out to local schools – a very popular event.

Since the event went live we have now been inundated with potential speakers for next year and hope to offer this up to local schools again during next year's Science and Engineering celebrations.

For more information:

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Visit the Science Week website