Family Events in Cambridgeshire

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.

Crash, Bang, Squelch!

(Mid March, part of the Cambridge Science Festival)

‘Crash, Bang, Squelch!’ is a large family event we run in mid March, which is part of theCambridge Science Festival. We take over the teaching labs in the Zoology department in Cambridge and fill 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.

On the following weekend we also usually 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 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, please visit our schools page.

Our next event in Cambridgeshire is

Mill Road Winter Fair, 3rd December

Come find us in the Salisbury Club for some hands on science fun.

Cambridge MusEum of Technology, 4th December

Access to our experiments will be free, normal entry fees apply for the rest of the museum.

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