Wacky Workshop

May 13th, 2009

A small bunch of us went out on a trip to the bright lights of Kirkcaldy today to take part in a nice interactive programme of physicsy things. We got to learn about the applications of Lasers; to operate laser tweezers and move 5 micron (that’s a thousandth of a millimetre) marbles; see total internal reflection and refraction; we listened to mad scientist Gill Arbuthnott tell us about mad creatures and even madder scientists; and we got to program robot buggies using light and touch sensors and the genius of our own minds. We had fun!

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