Family Events in Cambridgeshire
CHaOS runs fun hands-on science events for schools and families, with student demonstrators from the University of Cambridge. Throughout the year, we run a number of free public events around Cambridge that are suitable for families.
(Saturday 22 nd March, 2025)
‘Crash, Bang, Squelch!’ is a large family event we run in mid March, which is part of the Cambridge Festival. This year, we will be taking over the teaching labs in the Cambridge University Department of Chemistry, and filling them with over 50 fun hands-on experiments explained by friendly student demonstrators. Around 2,000 members of the public visit us at this event each year, which runs on a Saturday to coincide with British Science Week. We also run some interactive (and often explosive!) family science talks in the lecture theatre next to our hands-on event.
The Chemistry department will also be hosting their own hands-on activities at the same time, making this your one-stop shop for experimental fun!
On the following weekend, we also sometimes run a smaller event at the Cavendish Physics Zone, held at the Physics department, also as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
CHaOS Winter Roadshow
(Early December)
Each December at the end of the autumn term (Michaelmas term in Cambridge-speak!) we visit a number of Cambridgeshire schools and also run a couple of public events around Cambridge. In the past, we have visited Mill Road Winter Fair, Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cambridge Central Library, and events organised by the Institute of Physics. Keep an eye on our website from November for more information about these family events.
If you are interested in us visiting your school or venue in 2025, please visit our schools page or venues page.
Our next event in Cambridgeshire:
Crash, Bang, Squelch! 2025
Join us at the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry on Saturday 22nd March for our biggest event of the year! See all our experiments in one place, along with exciting demonstration-filled talks and interactive robotics workshops. More information coming soon!
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Family Events Around The UK
Information about our events outside of the Cambridge area.
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