April 2013: Electronics – Lighting Up! Part 2
A special thanks to Bob Kibble for running yet another fantastic Dunbar Science Club and at such short notice! We are also grateful to Young Engineers and Science Clubs Scotland for the free lighting up circuits. Science Club: Electronics – Lighting Up! Part 2 was for those from Part 1 to come back and complete [...]
February 2013: ComputerXplorers
Apologies avid readers for the delay in this blog post appearing. As you may know, we were very busy with Dunbar SciFest 2013! ComputerXplorers delivered amazing Science Club workshops on this February weekend. Three sessions back-to-back for two different age ranges! The theme of the workshops was ‘make your own computer game‘. 2DIY The first two [...]
January 2013: Electronics – Lighting Up!
Special thanks to Bob Kibble for running yet another fantastic Dunbar Science Club! We are also grateful to Young Engineers and Science Clubs Scotland for the free lighting up circuits. We started off the Science Club sessions by handing out a little bag full of electronic components, like resistors (to restrict the flow of electric [...]
December 2012: Bridge Building
With apologies for the Christmas-induced delay, here are the pictures from our great bridge-building day in December. Hopefully they were worth the wait! For this workshop we welcomed Andrew Collins, a Civil Engineer with his wonderful bridge building props and amazing, enormous suspension bridge model. We started out talking about the different stresses bridges are [...]
November 2012: Astronomy
Two groups of excited and enthusiastic children met in Halhill for an evening of stargazing with Bob Kibble- huge thanks to Bob for providing us with this fascinating workshop. We were also lucky to get breaks in the cloud (for the first group) and rain (for the second) that allowed us out to see the [...]
November 2012: Geology
First workshop of the year! It was good to see many familiar faces, and exciting to welcome the new intake of P1s in, I hope they enjoyed themselves. Many many thanks to Fiona McGibbon of the ESEU, and husband David, who hauled rock samples, information sheets and a microscope out to school for our budding [...]
June 2012: Science at the Grammar School
A trusty band of children gathered at Dunbar Grammar School for the final workshop of the year, led by teachers Anne-Marie Gibson and Janet McDougall-Welch. This session comprised demonstration experiments in Biology, Chemistry and Physics, with a chance to use some of the laboratory equipment the children will have access to at senior school. There [...]