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FREE EVENT Cardiff Met @ Cardiff Science Festival

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School of Sport and Health Sciences - Biomedical Science Department, Llandaff campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB

10am – 1pm, 18th February 2023

 

Virus models- An interactive workshop where participants will find out how antibodies fight viruses and make their very own virus models by Dr Rebecca Aicheler.

Target audience: Primary School

Time: 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00

Duration: 30 mins

Taste genes - An interactive workshop on genes responsible for taste, which can influence your food choices by Dr Maninder Ahluwalia

Target audience: Secondary School/ Adults

Time: 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00

Duration: 30 mins

Blood cell diseases and microscopic visualisation – An interactive workshop where participants will be able to visualise blood cell defects and learn about blood related diseases by Amanda Davies

Target audience: Secondary School/ Adults

Time: 10:00/ 11:00 / 12:00

Duration: 30 mins

Gram staining – An interactive workshop where participants can stain different bacteria and view the different sizes and shapes under a microscope by Benita Arakal

Target audience: Secondary School/ Adults

Time: 10:00/ 11:00 / 12:00

Duration: 40 mins

Scoops Test - an interactive game used to measure cognitive function Dr Claire Kelly/ Elisabeth Laurent

Target audience: Families

Time: 10:00/ 11:00 / 12:00

Duration: 30 mins

Virotherapy – A short talk on how viruses are being used for the treatment of diseases like cancer by Dr Veenu Manoharan.

Target audience: Secondary School/ Adults

Time: 12:00

Duration: 30 mins (Secondary school, Adults)

 

Cardiff School of Technologies, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB

1pm – 4pm, 18th February 2023

 

Creative coding with p5.js - An interactive workshop where participants will be supported to code line symmetry and radial symmetry designs, to play around with different colours, different scales, and also different shapes by Dr Parastoo Porhonar

Target audience: Primary School

Time: 13:00/14:00/15:00

Duration: 40 mins

Build an autonomous vehicle - Using the Robotics Lego Spike Prime kit, participants will build an autonomous vehicle. Delivered by Dr Nisha Rawindaran.

Target audience: Primary School

Time: 13:00/14:00/15:00

Duration: 40 mins

Robotics programming a A hands-on robotic programming workshop by Dr Sia Chow Siing and Jiaji Yang

Target audience: Primary School/Secondary school

Time: 14:00 /14:30 /15:00/15:30    

Duration: 20 mins   

BP Visualisation - Measure your blood pressure and digitally visualise your blood vessels by Dr Imtiaz Khan, Dr Sarah Brown, Dr Barry McDonnel, Dr Delyth James

Target audience: Secondary school/Adults

Time: 13:00 to 16:00pm

Duration:15 mins

Cyber Security - A talk on cyber security by Dr Rajkumar Rathore Singh

Target audience: Secondary school/Adults

Time: 13:00

Duration: 40 mins

 

Games Mechanics – A talk on game mechanics by Dr Glenn Jenkins

Target audience: Secondary school/Adults

Time: 15:00 to 15:40

Duration :40 mins

      

Games lab activities/Racing simulators

Target audience: Families

Time: Open from 13:00 to 16:00pm

 

    

 

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