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Welcome to the Cambridge Hands-On Science (CHaOS) website. We are a student society dedicated to trying to transfer some of our enthusiasm about science to the public. Find more about what we are here
We organise all sorts of Events including a huge event in Cambridge Science Festival called Crash! Bang! Squelch!, a summer Science Roadshow, we visit schools, amongst many other things.
If you are a student in Cambridge and would like to get involved, or oragnise something similar go to our Demonstrators' site. |
Chaos is once again loading up a van full of experiments and setting off on tour bringing hands-on science to schools, festivals, town halls and even a carnival all round the country. This years route includes Devon, Kent, Suffolk, Whiltshire and Gloucestershire and will run from the 1st to the 27th July.
With well over a decade of experience and even more experiments than ever before science has never been more fun!
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Hands-on Science for all the family-
Saturday 15th March 10-4
Come along and get your hands on our range of over fifty different experiments and demonstrations, each with a student to help you work out what's going on.
This year's event will run from 10am until 4pm on Saturday 15th March, on the University of Cambridge's New Museums Site. A ticketing system will run to reduce queuing - tickets will be available from 10am on the day.
As well as the hands-on activities there will also be a set of short talks run at:
11 am
12 noon
12:45
13:45
14:30
15:30
Crash, Bang, Squelch! is made possible by financial assistance from the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemists.
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This year's press release is available in Microsoft Word format:
Press release 24th June 2007
Print quality photos are available in the list below. To save a copy, right click on the link and click on 'Save Target As'. The photos may be freely reproduced for the purposes of publicising the CHaOS Science Roadshow; all other rights are reserved.
The press release has details on how to obtain further information and how to arrange interviews.
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CHaOS are going on the road again, with a bigger, better tour than ever. We'll be running free drop-in events at shows and town halls, and visiting schools across the country throughout July, with a vanload of experiments for all ages.
If you've ever wondered what DNA looks like, or why white clothes glow in discos and clubs, or how bridges stay up, come along and find out!
Announcement: Route Change!
Unfortunately, due to flooding in Gloucester, the Gloucester Festival events planned for this weekend (28th/29th July) have been cancelled. CHaOS will therefore not be visiting Gloucester this year.
Instead, we'll be at the Heckington Village Show in Lincolnshire.
We've also become aware that "Connection" (published in the Harlow area) has advertised a CHaOS visit for Thursday 28th July. Sadly this visit occured in 2005 and CHaOS is not visiting Harlow this year.
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On Saturday nd June, 12-5pm the experience that is strawberry fair again descends upon Midsummer Common in Cambridge. CHaOS will be there again with a choice selection of our experiments in the children's tent. Hope to see you there.
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Children's festival
If you can't see us here, we will also be at the Cambridge Children's festival on the 16th of June.
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The press release is available in PDF format at http://www.chaosscience.org.uk/press-release/press-release-chaos-comes-of-age.pdf.
Print quality photos are available in the list below. To save a copy, right click on the link and click on 'Save Target As'. The photos may be freely reproduced for the purposes of publicising the CHaOS Science Roadshow; all other rights are reserved.
The press release has details on how to obtain further information and how to arrange interviews.
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 Crash, Bang, Squelch! is CHaOS' big annual event in Cambridge and is part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Families from miles around come to get to grips with our hands-on experiments, with the support of at least one student per experiment to help you find the Really Interesting Bits.
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 CBS! aims to show all our visitors something new. Small group demonstrations enable our student volunteers to pitch their explanations at an appropriate level.
As always, CBS! will feature experiments demonstrating a wide range of ideas from all areas of science: extracting DNA from kiwi fruit, looking at how electric motors work, racing boats to find out which shapes go fastest. Some are old favourites and others new since last year's event.
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 This year's event will run from 10am until 4pm on Saturday 17th March, on the University of Cambridge's New Museums Site, and is sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. A ticketing system will run to reduce queuing - tickets will be available from 10am on the day.
The Cambridge Science Festival has its own website at http://www.cambridgescience.org with a full list of science festival events across Cambridge. |
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CBS! is again made possible by sponsorship from the Institute of Phyiscs and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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 Once again the CHaOS roadshow is set to begin... Friendly and enthusiastic Cambridge University students travel the country to share their enthusiasm about science with children and parents alike. Come along to our free events to try fun hands-on science experiments... create explosions, play with slime, meet Boris the skeleton, get DNA from a kiwi fruit, make rockets and much much more!
This summer the CHaOS roadshow will visit the following places:
Friday 14th - Sunday 16th July:
Weeting Steam Engine Rally and Country Show (Suffolk)
FREE to all visitors to the show
Tuesday 18th - Thursday 20th July:
Visiting schools (Warwickshire)
Not open to the public
Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd July:
Warwick Folk Festival (Warwickshire)
FREE to all visitors to the festival
Tuesday 25th July:
Retford (Nottinghamshire)
FREE to the general public, 12-5pm
Held at Retford Town Hall, The Square, Retford, DN22 6DB
Wednesday 26th July:
Louth (Lincolnshire)
FREE to the general public, 12-5pm
Held at Louth Town Hall, Eastgate, Louth, LN11 9NW
Thursday 27th July:
Cleethorpes (Lincolnshire)
FREE to the general public, 12-5pm
Held at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, Kingsway, Cleethorpes, DN35 0AA
Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th July:
Heckington Show (Lincolnshire)
FREE to all visitors to the show
(Please note: all under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.)
CHaOS has almost a decade of experience in organising public science events and visiting schools. They run a number of events close to home in Cambridge, but in recent years have visited many places across the country. The 2005 roadshow to Kent and East Anglia was a huge success, reaching over 4000 visitors in 2 weeks. Over 90% of our visitors found our event enjoyable, learnt something and would come again.
Examples of comments we received last year from children and their parents:
“…it was fantastic because you learn things you don’t normally learn…”
“Today has been great fun. I never thought I’d enjoy learning this much during my summer holidays.”
“For a family day out it was brilliant!”
“…you involved [the children] and motivated them to want to learn and find out more…”
CHaOS is a non-profit student-run society at the University of Cambridge, whose principal aim is to inspire children and their parents, with our own enthusiasm for science. The roadshow allows us to visit areas that, unlike Cambridge, have few science events. The 2006 CHaOS roadshow is kindly sponsored by: University of Cambridge Active Community Fund, GlaxoSmithKline, Microsoft Research, ARM, Institute of Physics and Cambridge Rag.
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CHaOS visited Robert Pattinson School near Lincoln over easter. we brought 12 enthusiastic students and 15 exciting experiments to the school.
 
Everyone had a great time and we will be back in Lincolnshire on this summer tour.
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| Chemistry week run by the Royal Society of Chemistry ran from the 4th to the 13th of November. As part of this CHaOS ran an event in Cambridge on Saturday the 5th.
A normally very dull exam hall was brought to life by lots of helium baloons, keen CHaOS and RSC demostrators and 10 fun experiments to demonstrate how chemistry plays a part in our every day lives. Children and parents learnt how fire extinguishers and hard warmers work, saw water being split by electrolysis, made mini explosions from cooking ingredients, got DNA out of kiwi fruit and more...
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