Crash, Bang, Squelch!
Crash, Bang, Squelch! is the biggest single event of the CHaOS year, taking place as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. For Crash, Bang, Squelch! CHaOS has around 30 experiments in one place, for more than 2000 visitors to see during the day. In 2024, Crash, Bang, Squelch! is taking place on Saturday 16th March 2024, and is open to the public from 10am-5pm. Like all CHaOS public events, Crash, Bang, Squelch! is absolutely free.
Tickets
You can pre-book tickets to all Crash, Bang, Squelch! events, using the links below. You can also turn up on the day to try our hands-on experiments or come along to our fantastic talks. The Eventbrite pages will go live on the 12th February. (The links open in a new tab)
GENERAL: Click here to book tickets
AMAZING TALKS: Click here to book tickets
ROBOTICS WORKSHOPS: Click here to book tickets
Please scroll down to find out more about our events!
Hands-on Experiments
Come along to see lots of exciting hands-on science experiments! You can have go yourself and find out lots about why things work they way they do!
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…
Talks
CHaOS student volunteers are running a series of talks filled with exciting demonstrations. You will find even more crashes, bangs, and squelches, and discover all sorts of weird and wonderful science!
Note: the table below has now been updated with this year’s talks and speakers.
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 10:10-10:40 | Colourful Chemistry (with Jessica Trevelyan) |
| 11:10-11:40 | How To Find an Alien Planet (with Xander Byrne) |
| 12:10-12:40 | The Amazing DNA Cookbook: Unwrapping the Recipe for Life (with Margaret Johncock) |
| 13:10-13:40 | Cyanobacteria: Solar-powered Superheroes! (with Robin Horton) |
| 14:10-14:40 | Mission ImmunoPossible: The Incredible World Inside You (with Swetha Kannan) |
| 15:10-15:40 | Falling with Style - How Animals Evolved to Fly (with Isaac Howell) |
| 16:10-16:40 | tbc |
Robotics Workshops
CHaOS will also be running several workshops on robotics, with lots of hands-on design and programming. Absolutely no experience is required, we’ll teach you all the basics and you can start making our robots do all sorts of amazing things in no time at all. We strongly recommend that you pre-book tickets for robotics workshops, as these usually run out before the day of the event.
All of our activities are now fully accessible. A map of the location is shown to the left.