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DESIGN YOUR PERFECT NEIGHBOURHOOD: October Half Term Workshop
October 2024
We will engage in uplifting activities for parents and their children to get involved in designing their 'ideal neighbourhood' in the spirit of community collaboration and learn how we can tackle big challenges like climate change and health by working together.
Please be prepared to let your child get messy or bring a change of clothes if required. As you can drop in and out, parents will please stay with their children throughout the event.
GRANULAR FLOW: October Half Term Workshop
October 2024
From medicines to sandcastles, this workshop introduces the three main states of matter and goes on to explore how particular materials behave in relation to each other. Using our exhibition and hands-on experiments, you will explore a variety of materials and their everyday uses.
SENSATIONAL SWARMS: May Half Term Workshops
May 2024
This May Half Term we are offering free workshops that explore bird flight and animals that swarm. We will be offering hands on activities suitable for the whole family and children of all ages!
SENSATIONAL SWARMS: Science Corner Activities
May 2024
Inspired by our ‘Bird Flight’ and ‘Swarm’ exhibits, our new activities explore the behaviour of groups of animals and looks closely at birds and butterflies. Visit our Science Corner on Saturday or Sunday to try out our experiments, make your own ‘Balancing Butterfly’ or fold an origami bird to add to our swarming flock.
Construction Challenge Workshops
March 2024
Inspired by our ‘Your perfect Neighbourhood exhibit’ we are challenging you to come along and see who can build the tallest tower using spaghetti and marshmallows. Can you create your own Eiffel Tower, or will it be a Pisa? Your participation helps our researchers in gathering valuable data to pinpoint which parts of our neighbourhoods help us to be healthy. With your help they can provide evidence to government, policymakers, and planners to help them create healthier and happier communities.
Construction Challenge:Science Corner Activities
March 2024
Come along to Oriel Science and build your perfect neighbourhood. Activities for young engineers will include building paper houses, creating plasticine street furniture, and being given the opportunity to brainstorm on how the landscape affects the way we live.
Pit Stop Fun: Family Racing
March 2024
Our Science Corner will be hosting an exciting racing car construction championship that promises fun for the whole family!
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Race our SURE car to get the best time!
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Shape a model car to conquer our track!
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Get creative on paper – design your own racing car!
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For our younger racers – colour the best car!
WELSH DARK SKIES WEEK 2024
workshops at Oriel Science
February 2024
STARDUST HUNTERS: Every year, approx. 3,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to the surface of the Earth – these extra-terrestrial particles which survive the journey through the atmosphere to land on the Earth are known as micrometeorites.
Join us on the hunt for these particles and help scientists learn about our early Solar System.
FAULKES TELESCOPE: Have you ever wondered what it is like to observe the night sky through a telescope? Join us at Oriel Science, take control of the Faulkes telescopes in Hawaii and Australia and observe the universe in real time*!
Celebrating Women & Girls in Science
February 2024
Visit Oriel Science and take a stimulating journey into the world of Women & Girls in Science though talks and activities!
Santa's Slimy Sparkle
December 2023 - January 2024
This season, join the festive fun at our Science Corner where we explore what Santa puts on his sleigh to make it shine! Come along with your family and discover how to create Santa's Slimy Sparkle.
Eyes on the World
January 2024
This workshop draws from exhibits in our IMAGING exhibition to explore how we and other animals see the world around us. Learn how the structure of human eyes compares to that of insect eyes. Join this family-friendly workshop and try out some of our fun activities to find out how we interpret what we see.
Shape of Speed
November 2023
As part of this year's Swansea Science Festival, join Oriel Science's workshop "The Shape of Speed" and design a model car to compete against others; make a CD hovercraft and have a go on our ‘SURE car’ an open-wheeler competitive racing car designed by Swansea University students.
Swansea Science Festival
October 2023
The Swansea Science Festival returns with the Family Festival, live and in person, at the National Waterfront Museum. Come along to Oriel Science's stand to practice your engineering skills, compete against others, learn how to make a CD hovercraft and learn how the Swansea University Race Engineering (SURE) Team designs and builds cars to be aerodynamically efficient!
Science Corner activities
April 2023
Stop by and design your own insect or make a bug hotel at our Science Corner. If you’re up for some more action, you can also participate in our “Illusive Insect Easter-Hunt”. Find the hidden clues around the venue to reveal the name of the “Illusive Insect”
to take part in our draw and win a “Beetle Game” prize!!!
Jointed Jamboree
April 2023
This workshop looks at our Crab Maze, and our Insect exhibits and explores Phylum Arthropoda, estimated to contain 80% of all known animal species! Learn how these animals with jointed legs and no bones move and how they can survive in every habitat on Earth.
Shhh! Sound
February 2023
This workshop looks at our “Acoustic Levitator” exhibit and explores the nature of sound. Learn how sound is produced and how humans and our animal cousins sense that sound by looking at the structure of different types of ears!
More Tiny Little Things Workshop
January 2023
Visit the microscopic world!
In these workshops, you will be able to look at slides prepared by professionals and make slides yourself. Following on from October Half-Term’s “Tiny Little Things” workshop, you will once again peer at what we cannot usually see, but there will be new specimens this time!
Join Us Underwater film
October-December 2022
A 9min collaborative creation, by the Swansea community and Swansea University's Freshwater Interdisciplinary Research and Engagement (FIRE) Lab.
Meet the Researcher
November 2022
Visit Oriel Science and meet the researchers of the "Join Us Underwater Film" exhibit, Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley and Ioanna-Daphne Giannoulatou. The researchers will be talking about UK’s migratory fishes and how the different projects created by Swansea University’s FIRE Lab contribute to revealing people’s thoughts and feelings about freshwater environments.
Swansea Science Café
November 2022
Join Cancer Research Wales for a FREE evening of discovery at the Swansea Science Café!
Half Term Workshops
October - November 2022
A series of free workshops and activities, addressed to all, looking into the science behind some of
Oriel Science's exhibits.
Summer Workshops
August 2022
A series of 4 free workshops, addressed to all, looking into the science behind some of Oriel Science's exhibits.
Join Us Underwater
April 2022
An interactive exhibit created by Swansea University's Freshwater Interdisciplinary Research and Engagement
(FIRE) Lab.
Copper Crucibles
A fun clay modelling workshop addressed to all, led by ceramicist and artist Esther Ley.
February 2022