Community Affairs
Cambridge Science Festival
The Cambridge Science Festival is the largest free science festival in the UK and attracts 25,000 people for two weeks of events during Science and Engineering Week held annually in March.
It encourages the general public, and particularly young people, to take an interest in science and its application in society. Hands-on experiments such as rocket building, learning to extract DNA from kiwi fruit and creating controlled explosions encourage the local community to share the University's passion for science.
Forty University departments and many partner organisations in business and the community put on events for the public during the Festival, and 1,000 staff, students, business and community volunteers take part each year. Before each Festival, the Annual Schools Roadshow involves fifteen University lecturers visiting thirty local schools to give special talks tailored to the National Curriculum.
Science Festival 2009
The dates of the next Science Festival are 9 - 22 March 2009. The theme is Centuries of Science, in recognition that 2009 is the University's 800th Anniversary.
Saturday 14 March 2009: Science on Saturday 1 A fun day for the family, with activities going on around the centre of the city. Departments and faculties taking part will include Biology, Chemistry and Engineering.
Saturday 21 March 2009: Science on Saturday 2 A second day for all the family, with activities focused on the University's West Cambridge Site on Madingley Road. Departments and faculties taking part will include Physics, Astronomy and the Vet School.
The full Science Festival programme will be available in January 2009. Please email us to join our mailing list (postal and/or email) and receieve more details.
December 2008
The Horrible Science of Cambridge, a lecture by the Horrible Science author, Nick Arnold
- Saturday 20 December 2008, 2 pm
- Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge
A lecture to celebrate the horrible discoveries made in Cambridge to welcome in the University's 800th Anniversary Year.
Booking essential - NOW FULLY BOOKED
Cambridge Science Festival was a winner of the
Directory of Social Change Public Body Award 2007
