Schools Outreach Activities
Department of Chemistry Outreach Activities
We are keen to engage with pupils of all ages and offer many outreach activities throughout the year targeted at different year groups. Most activities aim to provide a mix of chemistry based laboratory activities with a hands-on element, along with quizzes, lectures and demonstration experiments.
Please see below for our provisional timetable and dates of forthcoming events during 2012/13 and for further details with a brief summary of each event offered, please visit the relevant 'Primary', 'Secondary' or 'Post 16' Outreach pages.
Spectroscopy Afternoons give students the opportunity to get hands on with some key analytical techniques including FT-IR, NMR and mass spectrometry.
To register your interest in the 2012/13 programme of spectroscopy visits please contact Dr Dylan Williams
The Department of Chemistry offers a number of public lectures. Titles of available lectures include:
"Green Chemistry"
"From Test Tube to Turner: The Role of the Chemist in Art"
"How to Commercialise Scientific Discoveries"
"Nanotechnology"
"Quantum mechanics and lasers"
"Molecules in space"
"Lasers"
"Surface Chemistry; Atoms Alloys and Aeroplanes"
For more details on any of these lectures please contact us.
Students and their teachers take part in a variety of chemistry activities based around the technology of the mobile phone and during workshops they have the opportunity to make chemical displays, design solar cells and find out how nanotechnology can be used to build the chips inside their phones.
A Senior Chemistry Examiner will also be there to give advice on how to pass exams, while representatives from industry and universities will be on hand to give important careers and admissions advice.
Year 12
Contact: Dr Katy McKenzie
The Salters' Festival of Chemistry is an initiative of the Salters' Institute. Their objective is to help promote the appreciation of chemistry and related sciences among the young.
The Festival is a one-day fun event which provides the opportunity for enthusiastic young students to spend a day in the department of chemistry and to take part in practical chemistry activities which are fun! Prizes are awarded to the winning teams and all students receive participation certificates and fun prizes.
Mixed Teams
Contact: Dr Warren Cross
Year 13
Contact: Jo Leadbetter
Ticket only £10 tbc
Year 12
Contact: Jo Leadbetter
Year 5 and 6
Contact: Dr Katy McKenzie
Year 12
Contact: Jo Leadbetter
