This Saturday thousands of children and adults will be crowding into the University's New Museums Site to join Johnny Ball and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Alec Broers when they launch National Science Week's Science on Saturday programme.

This Saturday thousands of children and adults will be crowding into the University's New Museums Site to join Johnny Ball and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Alec Broers when they launch National Science Week's Science on Saturday programme.

The fun starts at 10am when youngsters dressed as Spies in Disguise parade in the Babbage Lecture Theatre and African dance artists Adzido present a breathtaking performance of traditional dance and drumming.

Codes and Puzzles is the theme for this year's programme and visitors will be invited to crack for themselves some of science's greatest mysteries, from the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt to the secret intelligence operations of the Second World War and beyond.

Throughout the day visitors will be able to wander into many University departments not usually open to the public, and find out about the extraordinary science that goes on inside.

To help navigate around the site, there are three zones each with a different theme.

For the first time this year, Great St Mary's Church will be getting involved in Science Week. On Sunday 18 March, at 6.30pm there will be a special service, Celebrating the Faith of Scientists. Three scientists will be giving their views on how faith and science interact.

Some of science's biggest questions will be up for discussion in the Midweek Debate, Science - Who's in Control? Panellists including former Government Scientific Advisor Robert May, along with animal behaviour expert Professor Patrick Bateson and novelist AS Byatt will be discussing some of today's hot scientific issues during a midweek debate on Wednesday 21 March 2001.

The final lecture of the week will take place on March 21. Professor Christopher Andrew will be revealing some of the secrets of 'Station X', at the Lady Mitchell Hall, in Sidgwick Avenue, at 7pm.

Sarah Shaw, the University's National Science Week Co-ordinator, promises the week will be a journey of discovery for everyone: "There are puzzles and codes to be found throughout science and the arts," she said. "We want everyone - children and adults - to come along during the week and unlock some of those secrets for themselves."

Further information See the full National Science Week programme for further details about the upcoming week's exciting events.


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