Glasgow Science Centre visits Shetland Science Fair
This November, Glasgow Science Centre is taking its science learning programmes to the Shetland Science Fair, for the first time the fair has been held on the isles since 2009.
Taking place on the 5 and 6 of November, the On Tour team from Glasgow Science Centre will be running interactive exhibit sessions for schools at the Shetland Science Fair. In Fit Lab, pupils can explore their endurance, power, agility, speed and coordination through a range of interactive exhibits.
In Powering the Future, pupils will get hands on with exhibits that explore how we can produce electricity and fuels and how we can be smarter with our use of energy.
In addition, pupils at the Science Fair will get to take part in Glasgow Science Centre’s Space Junk workshop and explore the opportunities of Scotland’s growing space industry.
The much-awaited return of the Shetland Science Fair has been made possible through community benefit funding from Shetland Aerogenerators, the company behind Shetland’s Burradale Windfarm.
NorthLink Ferries are also supporting the fair by providing subsidised transport to Shetland for participating groups.
Glasgow Science Centre’s involvement in the Shetland Science Fair is the latest collaboration in a wider partnership between Shetland and Glasgow Science Centre.
Funded by Edina Trust, in January 2023 two teams from Glasgow Science Centre spent a fortnight on Shetland visiting the majority of the schools on the island to deliver their Bodyworks workshop. The On Tour team returned in April the same year to visit the harder to reach schools in Burravoe, Mid Yell, Baltasound, Whalsay and Foula.
In July last year, Shetland’s Tall Ships Festival invited Glasgow Science Centre’s On Tour Team to deliver their Powering The Future and Bodyworks exhibits.
Commenting, Andi Grochowski, Project Manager at Shetland Aerogenerators and Shetland Science Fair organiser, said:
“We are grateful for the contribution of all of our knowledge delivery partners. It’s great to be able to bring these opportunities to some secondary classes when they might have otherwise missed out on this enhanced learning. We look forward to seeing how this first year goes!”
Fiona Davies, Science Learning Manager at Glasgow Science Centre said:
“At Glasgow Science Centre, we believe that every child should have the opportunity to engage with STEM in a way that sparks their curiosity and opens doors to further education and future careers.
“We’re delighted to have been asked to participate in the Shetland Science Fair and to get the chance to work with teachers and pupils across Shetland to deliver a selection of our innovative workshops and Learning Labs, and further strengthen our relationships within Scotland’s national STEM education community.”
“As an education charity, none of the outreach work Glasgow Science Centre delivers would be possible without the support and funding of our valued partners like GSK, OPITO, Historic Environment Scotland, and UK Space Agency who each help to make our vision for inclusive STEM education a reality.”
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