January 2012: The Chemistry of Colour
Another exciting Saturday, this time donning lab coats and goggles to do some properly wet and messy, hands-on chemistry to get everyone interested. Tim Sangster kindly ran this workshop, with his two able assistants Gillian and Jon, and a few parent helpers. We started off by talking about the molecules that make up water (polar) [...]
December 2011: From Atoms to Molecules
Despite a slightly Christmas-depleted turnout, plenty of small eager faces awaited Sandy and Lorna Smith and their boxes of model-making supplies on Saturday. Sandy began by explaining about atoms and how they join together to make molecules, what different molecules can be used for, and the meanings of their long and interesting names. Next we [...]