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Welcome to the Cambridge Hands-On Science (CHaOS) website. We are a student society dedicated to trying to transfer some of our enthusiasm about science to the public. Find more about what we are here
LATEST NEWS: See below for details of where the CHaOS Summer Roadshow is going in 2009. We'll be running public events in Cumbria, Manchester and Lincolnshire, as well as visiting schools around the country.
We organise all sorts of Events including a huge event in Cambridge Science Festival called Crash! Bang! Squelch!, a summer Science Roadshow, we visit schools, amongst many other things.
If you are a student in Cambridge and would like to get involved, or organise something similar go to our Demonstrators' site. |
The 2009 CHaOS Roadshow has begun! From late June to late July, our team of enthusiastic student demonstrators and hands-on experiments are visiting public venues across the North of England, as well as spending 3 weeks in schools in various different areas. Do come along to one of our public events and explore our exciting experiments!
The following events are open to the public:
10.30am-3.30pm on each day, drop in any time, FREE
We're going to be visiting MOSI as part of their 'Meet the Scientists' series of events. More information about this can be found at http://www.mosi.org.uk/whats-on/meet-the-scientists. Directions for MOSI as well as information about car parking etc. can be found at http://www.mosi.org.uk/visiting-us/where-are-we.
Sat 18th July: Ashby Community Centre, Scunthorpe
12-5pm, drop in any time, FREE
Ashby community centre is located on Everest Road, Ashby, Scunthorpe, DN16 2ND.
A map is available here
12-5pm, drop in any time, FREE
Grimsby central hall is located on Duncombe Street in Grimsby (DN32 7EG); a map can be found here.
12-5pm, drop in any time, FREE
On the edge of Longtown, next to the A7, on Arthuret Road (CA6 5SJ): a map can be found here.
12-5pm, drop in any time, FREE
Located on the edge of Brampton Town centre on Union Lane (CA8 1BX): a map can be found here.
12-5pm, drop in any time, FREE
Located in Edgehill Road, Carlisle (CA1 3PP), see here for a map.
Sat 25th/Sun 26th July: Heckington Show, Lincolnshire
12-5pm each day, drop in any time.
Heckington is 5 miles to the East of Sleaford on the A17 (postcode NG34 9JF), and Heckington station is a 5 minute walk from the showground. A map can be found here. The CHaOS event is free, but Heckington Show do make a small charge for admission, including lots of exciting attractions, see here for more details.
 
Our 4 week Summer Roadshow will also be visiting schools in Cambridgeshire, Congleton, Preston and Wimbledon, as well as an event for home educated children in Kent.
Thanks to...
The CHaOS Roadshow could not run without generous sponsorship, this year we are grateful to the following organisations:
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CHaOS will again be at Cambridge's biggest free festival, the Strawberry Fair on Saturday 6th June 2009. Find us in the Kids Area, near to the circus! We'll be running a selection of exciting experiments from 12-5pm.
The fair is on Midsummer Common, Cambridge, click here for a map.
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CHaOS will be at the Cavendish Laboratory Open Day on Saturday 21st March, which is part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Our hands-on demos will be open to the public from 2-5pm, and as usual the event is absolutely free.
See here for a map of the location. Note that car parking can be difficult during the Science Festival, and we recommend that visitors arrive by bike/foot/public transport where possible. The Citi 4, Uni 4 and Madingley Road Park and Ride bus services will all get you to the West Cambridge site from the centre of Cambridge.
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Crash, Bang, Squelch! is the biggest single event of the CHaOS year, bringing over 50 experiments into one place, for more than 2000 visitors to see during the day. This year CBS! is on Saturday 14th March, and is open to the public from 10am-4pm. Like all CHaOS public events, CBS! is absolutely free.
Come along to see lots of exciting hands-on science experiments, have go yourself and find out lots about what is going on. Our experiments will show you why hot air balloons stay up, what happens when you split water in half, how your lungs work, and much, much more...
This year, we will also be running some talks in a lecture theatre next door to CBS!, with lots of exciting experiments that are just too big to fit into the normal lab! See below for talk times, pre-booking is not required, just show up and be amazed.
Note that CBS! is usually very popular, and during busy periods we are likely to be preventing long queues by issuing timed tickets for later in the day. Last year we ran out of tickets at around 2.30pm, so get here early to avoid disappointment!
If you're a student in Cambridge and are interested in helping out with CBS, then you might like to visit our Demonstrator sign-up page.
The venue is fully accessible to those with mobility difficulties, and there are toilets on site. See here for a map of the location.
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Talk timetable:
10.30am: Spinning Gases (Dave Ansell)
Find out how tornadoes happen, and just how fast a vacuum cleaner can make something move...11.30am: Sparks and Shocks (Dave Ansell)
See what happens to a gherkin if you run mains electricity through it, and lots more high voltage fun!12.30-1.30pm: Lunch Break1.30pm: Blood and stuff (Adam Bromby)
Blood carries all sorts of useful things around your bodies, find out what happens if it gets cut off from the arm of our brave student volunteer!2.30pm: Sparks and Shocks (Dave Ansell)
A repeat of the morning's talk.
Crash, Bang, Squelch is part of the Cambridge Science Festival |
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In December 2008, CHaOS Demonstrators visited 3 primary schools in the Cambridge area, working with around 360 children in school years 3-6 (ages 7-11). The schools were:
- Tue 9th: Bellbird Village Primary School, Sawston
- Wed 10th: Burwell Village College
- Thu 11th: St. Mary's Primary School, St Neots
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CHaOS will be at the Institute of Physics East Anglia branch's annual December Event, hosted at the Cavendish Laboratory in West Cambridge. It's completely free, and as well as CHaOS features lots of other exciting talks, hands-on demos and a planetarium.
It's on Sunday 14th December 2008, from 2.30-5pm. All welcome! More details are available from the physics department website.
See here for a map showing the location of the Cavendish Labs.
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Chaos is once again loading up a van full of experiments and setting off on tour bringing hands-on science to schools, festivals, town halls and even a carnival all round the country. This years route includes Devon, Kent, Suffolk, Whiltshire and Gloucestershire and will run from the 1st to the 27th July.
With well over a decade of experience and even more experiments than ever before science has never been more fun!
Edit: Click here for a copy of our roadshow report.
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Hands-on Science for all the family-
Saturday 15th March 10-4
Come along and get your hands on our range of over fifty different experiments and demonstrations, each with a student to help you work out what's going on.
This year's event will run from 10am until 4pm on Saturday 15th March, on the University of Cambridge's New Museums Site. A ticketing system will run to reduce queuing - tickets will be available from 10am on the day.
As well as the hands-on activities there will also be a set of short talks run at:
11 am, 12 noon, 12:45, 13:45, 14:30, 15:30
Crash, Bang, Squelch! is made possible by financial assistance from the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemists.
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CHaOS are going on the road again, with a bigger, better tour than ever. We'll be running free drop-in events at shows and town halls, and visiting schools across the country throughout July, with a vanload of experiments for all ages.
If you've ever wondered what DNA looks like, or why white clothes glow in discos and clubs, or how bridges stay up, come along and find out!
Announcement: Route Change!
Unfortunately, due to flooding in Gloucester, the Gloucester Festival events planned for this weekend (28th/29th July) have been cancelled. CHaOS will therefore not be visiting Gloucester this year.
Instead, we'll be at the Heckington Village Show in Lincolnshire.
We've also become aware that "Connection" (published in the Harlow area) has advertised a CHaOS visit for Thursday 28th July. Sadly this visit occured in 2005 and CHaOS is not visiting Harlow this year.
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On Saturday nd June, 12-5pm the experience that is strawberry fair again descends upon Midsummer Common in Cambridge. CHaOS will be there again with a choice selection of our experiments in the children's tent. Hope to see you there.
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Children's festival
If you can't see us here, we will also be at the Cambridge Children's festival on the 16th of June.
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