Exploration Zone – Hull Science Festival

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Exploration Zone

Doors open 15 minutes before event starts

Extend your horizons in our Exploration Zone. We have shows, workshops, lectures for all ages and interests.

Tickets for each event need to be booked separately.

Hull Science Festival 2018.

All shows, workshops, lectures

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Chemistry in Minecraft
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Join global Minecraft mentor Joel Mills and University of Hull students through an interactive chemistry-packed Minecraft workshop. Explore molecular structures....
Workshop
For ages 8+
1.00-2.00pm
1 Hour
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Control Freak
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Have fun experimenting with robotics, control systems and electronics....
Workshop
For ages 8+
10.30-11.30am, 12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm
1 Hour
New show
The Demo Show: Tricks of the mind
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Prepare yourselves to have the wool pulled over your eyes as we take an interactive look into brain boggling science of illusions....
Show
For ages 7+
12.30-1.20pm
50 Minutes
New show
Featured: The Demo Show: Use the Force
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: May the Mass times Acceleration be with you, as Phil Bell-Young takes you through an interactive look into the phenomenal science of forces....
Show
For ages 8+
12.30-1.20pm
50 Minutes
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Destroy this book in the name of science
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Join author, performer and science enthusiast Mike Barfield to tear apart his books and create ace science things from The Hoop Glider to Einstein Nodder, and Turtle Racers....
Workshop
For ages 7+
11.30am-12.30pm
1 Hour
New workshop
Distortions in Spacetime
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Step into a mind-blowing virtual environment that puts you on the edge of a black hole! Then experience what it might feel like to tumble into it....
Workshop
For all ages
10.00am-4.00pm
Every 10 Minutes
New show
Featured: DR Death and The Medi-Evil Medicine Show
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: A historically and scientifically accurate panto for children and other childish people....
Show
For ages 8+
10.30-11.20am
50 Minutes
New lecture
Get hands on with eye surgery
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Not for the squeamish! Eye surgeon Dr Colin Vize demonstrates what’s involved when he carries out operations on one of the most important organs of the human body.
Lecture
For ages 11+
12.30-13.30pm
1 Hour
New show
Hack Your Brain
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Ginny Smith gives a tour through the workings of your brain and nervous system....
Show
For ages 8+
10.00am-10.50am
50 Mins
New lecture
How does it all fit
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Some 25 feet of intestines, 206 bones, and a heart the size of your fist. These are just a few of the thousands of structures that make up our bodies....
Lecture
For ages 11+
2.30-3.20pm
50 Minutes
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Hull Raspberry Pi Jam
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Learn, share and tinker with digital projects made using the world-renowned credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer....
Workshop
For ages 8+
10.00am-12.00pm
2 Hours
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Lab Rascals – Slime & jelly worms workshop
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Chemistry of all things gooey and learn the surprising truth about what slime has in common with plastics, wood and protein....
Workshop
For ages 6+
10.30-11.30am, 12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm
1 Hour
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Mastering Memory
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Super science communicator Ginny Smith takes you on a tour of your brain. She’ll show you what happens when we learn and store memories....
Workshop
For ages 9+
12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm
1 Hour
New workshop
Meet the Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: What goes on inside an Ambulance? Come along to the state-of-the-art Allam medical building and meet the Yorkshire Ambulance crew.
Workshop
For ages 5+
10.30-11.30am, 12.00-1.00pm, 2.00-3.00pm
1 Hour
New show
Physics Gets to the Heart of the Matter
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Dr Heather Williams has shared a stage with Brian Cox and Alice Roberts, she's worked on BBC's Bang Goes the Theory and now she's here to explain how her work in Medical....
Show
For ages 8+
2.30-3.20pm
50 Minutes
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Planetarium
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Explore the universe in our fantastic, inflatable, giant planetarium.....
Workshop
For ages 8+
12.00-12.45pm, 2.00-2.45pm
45 Minutes
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Robot Forensics
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Build your own robotic crime scene investigator using a remote control buggy and your ingenuity.
Workshop
For ages 8+
10.30-11.30am, 12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm
1 Hour
New workshop
Save a life with CPR
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Come along to The University of Hull's state-of-the-art medical building and learn some skills that might help you to save a life!
Workshop
For age 8+
10.30-11.30am, 12.15-1.15pm, 2.00-3.00pm
1 Hour
New lecture
Supercomputing life in future oceans: how will the future smell?
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: In this interactive lecture we will explore how future ocean conditions affect smell molecules that are used by marine animals to find their food....
Lecture
For ages 10+
11.30am-12.30pm
1 Hour
New show
SWAT! A Fly’s Guide to Staying Alive
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Mike Barfield’s very funny and informative family friendly show all about fly and insect survival, based on his book 'SWAT! A Fly's Guide to Staying Alive!'....
Show
For ages 6+
2.30-3.20pm
50 Minutes
New workshop
What’s It Like To Be A Surgeon? Operating Theatre
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: How science festival workshop: Step into our operating theatre and the shoes of the surgical team.
Workshop
For ages 8+
10.30-11.30am, 12.15-1.15pm, 2.00-3.00pm
1 Hour