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     Welcome to the CHaOS Demonstrators Page  

    CHaOS is a student-run society at the University of Cambridge. We organise hands-on science events throughout the year at schools and public events, visiting venues in the Cambridge area and across the country. We have almost a decade of experience in inspiring children and families about science.

    All our events are staffed by enthusiastic student volunteers who demonstrate the experiments. If you'd like to know more about helping then email us at contact@chaosscience.org.uk to be added to our news email list. Over 1000 volunteers are on the list and we send a few emails each term advertising our events. Just reply if you'd like to help!

    Our largest event is Crash Bang Squelch! at the end of Lent term, as part of National Science Week and the Cambridge Science Festival. This popular event normally attracts over 2000 visitors and involves over 150 student demonstrators. We also tour the country for several weeks over the summer. Read about our Summer Roadshow.

    This website is for our student demonstrators. We also have a website for the general public which can be found at www.chaosscience.org.uk. Find out how to do and explain lots of our Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medical experiments. These are not instructions just examples to get you thinking. You may be interested in some general things we have learnt about demonstrating.

    The idea of this site is to try and communicate ideas between demonstrators, so please make comments, write explanations of any experiments you have demonstrated, or suggest new experiments.

     Documents for a CRB check Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    24/01/10 @ 11:19 GMTLia  
    We need CHaOS volunteers who go into schools to apply for a CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) check with us if they don't have a recent enhanced disclosure. (This shows us that you don't have a UK criminal record that means you shouldn't work with children). This is routine for most volunteers in the UK who work with children.

    The form is fairly simple to fill in- the complicated part comes from checking ID. We've included the full list of possible documents below, but most people in Cambridge usually bring:

    One or two of: Passport, UK driving license, Birth Certificate, EU photo ID
    Plus: College bill (or other proof of Cam address)
    And one of these to make a total of 3 documents: Bank statements/ Utility bills/ Exam certificates etc (a "group 2" document form below)

    Please let us know if you can't find enough of these- perhaps email with what you do have and we can figure it out!     		 
     

     Welcome to CHaOS Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    22/01/10 @ 10:02 GMTMarkD  
    Events

    What is CHaOS?

    Welcome to the CHaOS webpage for new volunteers- read on to find out how you can get involved!

    About us

    CHaOS is a student society that runs fun science outreach events outside of term time. We run a number of events just before or after term in Cambridge, such "Crash, Bang, Squelch!" in National Science Week at the end of Lent Term. We also take our experiments on tour each summer, when the CHaOS roadshow visits schools and town halls around the country in July every year. Our events are run entirely by student volunteers, based on experiments that have been built, bought and borrowed since we ran our first event twelve years ago. CHaOS events are funded by a number of different organisations - so helping us out will just take some of your time. Our volunteers come from all science-related subjects (Nat Scis, Medics and Vets, Engineers, Mathmos and more) and range from first year undergraduates to final year PhD students. Some have explained science to the public before, but most of us did this for the first time at a CHaOS event! There's a video of us in action last summer from a local TV station available here

    Come and meet CHaOS: Saturday 30th January, 11am - 3pm, Graduate Union (Silver Street)

    We're running a mini roadshow event for new volunteers in the centre of Cambridge on Saturday 30th January, drop in from 11am - 3pm, at the Graduate Union in Silver Street (see map). Come and have a go with our cool experiments, chat with some our volunteers, and sign up to our volunteer lists. There'll be drinks and nibbles too! [We met lots of keen new people at this event- we're hoping to see you at a CHaOS event soon!]

    "Crash, Bang, Squelch!" 2010: Saturday 13th March

    This is our huge science week event; we have over 50 experiments from all areas of science, that are run by over 100 student volunteers. We get to take over the teaching labs in the Zoology department, and have over 2,000 people through the doors. You can volunteer for morning or afternoon slots, or the whole day. In the next couple of weeks we'll have a sign up page where you can express interest and choose a selection of experiments that you'd be happy to talk about.

    Summer Roadshow

    CHaOS takes experiments on tour to schools and town halls around the country for a month each summer. We pack our experiments and tents into a van, and about 15 keen volunteers into the CHaOS minibus. This year the roadshow runs from 28th June to 25th July- you can come from anything from a few days to a couple of weeks (though one or two nutters do the whole month!). CHaOS covers travel, food and accommodation- just bring yourself and some enthusiasm! Find out more about tour by looking at our 2009 tour report here. Sign up for specific dates for tour should be available early in Easter term- sign up to our mailing for a reminder! :-)

    Where do I sign up?

    Come along to our "What is CHaOS?" event on Saturday 30th January (see above), or sign up for our mailing list (~2 emails per term) here. If you've got any questions you can email us at contact@chaosscience.org.uk Hope to see you at a CHaOS event soon!     		 
     

     Freshers' Fair 2009 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    06/10/09 @ 14:33 BSTrosy  
    Events

    CHaOS is at stall F16 at the CUSU/ARU Freshers' Fair at Kelsey Kerridge 6th and 7th October.

    If you haven't signed up to join our (very low volume) e-mail list and find out about the events we're running later in the year, do so here (search for "soc-chaos-interested") now!

    		  
     

     CHaOS AGM 2009 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    05/10/09 @ 20:18 BSTMarkD  
    General

    This year's CHaOS AGM will be happening on Saturday 17th October at 4pm, in the Graduate Union (directions below). If you've been involved at all with CHaOS in the last year (or even if not), do come along to elect next year's committee, and hear a bit about our plans for the coming year. There will be nibbles.

    The agenda will be something like the following:

    • Review of last year.
    • Election of new committee members.
    • Discussion of plans for this year.

    We are always looking for new committee members, so if you might be interested in joining the committee then do come along and find out more. If you're keen but can't make it, or have any further questions, then do drop me an e-mail on mnd22.

    Unlike in previous years, our freshers squash will be a separate event later on in term.

    Directions to GU:

    The GU is on Silver Street. Walking from Trumpington Street (at the bottom of Kings Parade), go along Silver Street for about 20m and then turn left into a car park entrance, signposted to various university institutions (including CRASSH). The GU entrance is immediately on the right under the archway.

    Map

    GU Website Directions

    		  
     

     Experiments to fix Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    01/08/09 @ 15:47 BSTdavidbebb  
    Experiments that we need to fix following tour

    read more (87 words) 2 comments
    Most Recent Post: 12/06 10:10AM by davidbebb
    		 
     

     Why does toast fall butter side down? Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    28/07/09 @ 12:58 BSTCHS  
    Hugh Hunt (from the Engineering department) has some neat little movies on his website, one of which demonstrates toast falling and rotating to butter side down.

    http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/movies.htm

    Scroll 1/2 way down the page.

    There's also lots of videos about spin.

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    Most Recent Post: 11/05 07:10AM by jesse520
    		 
     

     Psychadelic milk RA Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:30 GMTrosy  
    Psychadelic milk  
     

     Psychadelic milk Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:24 GMTrosy  
    Physics ExpsMake beautiful moving psychedelic patterns in a bowl of milk with just some food colouring and washing up liquid.

    Required
    Some milk
    A few colours of food colouring
    A few drops of washing up liquid
    A bowl     		 
     

     Cornflour monster RA Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:12 GMTrosy  
    Vibrating cornflour with a loudspeaker to make it grow tendrils  
     

     Cornflour monster Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:06 GMTrosy  
    Physics Exps

    Description taken from Dave's write-up on the Naked Scientists website:

    A cornflour monster

    This is a really strange effect only discovered about 6 years ago. Basically it involves shaking cornflour mixture very hard and it starts to grow tendrils, in a very 1950's B-movie way.

    		  
     

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