Engineering undergraduates from the University of Cambridge are lending their services to a hands-on science and technology event this week for five to 19-year-olds.
Engineering undergraduates from the University of Cambridge are lending their services to a hands-on science and technology event this week for five to 19-year-olds.
Techlinks 2004 is at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford from June 8-10. Each day is geared towards a different age group and offers school and college students the chance to get stuck into practical, problem-solving activities that showcase science in a commercial context.
The Cambridge undergraduates have volunteered to help the students tackle their technological tasks. That means advising teenagers on the best way to construct a two-person raft out of paper, plastic sheeting and nuts and bolts and helping seven-year-olds manufacture aerodynamic Channel Tunnel trains out of foam plastic.
Yesterday (June 8), they helped primary school children aged between five and 11 design rocket launchers and jitterbugs, as well as demonstrating equipment not usually available in the classroom, such as a wind tunnel and test tanks.
Today, the Cambridge undergraduates will again be helping primary school children. Then, tomorrow it's the turn of secondary school and sixth form college students, as they compete to design the best self-righting buoys and football-playing robots.
More than 2,500 students are expected to attend Techlinks 2004 over the course of the three days.
The event has been organised by Mid Anglia SATRO Ltd and SETpoint Cambridgeshire, both of which aim to promote a greater understanding of commerce and industry among young people.
Tickets for Techlinks 2004 can be booked through the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
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