As Part of Stirling Science Festival
01st October – 31st October
The work of Edinburgh artist Johnathan Elders, Betty is a life-sized basking shark which aims to illustrate the sheer scale of Scotland’s electronic waste problem.
Community Gallery Coding Challenges
01st October – 31st October
Take on our coding challenge! Create a text based adventure game using any piece of software. In a classic interactive fiction book your story would change depending on what option you picked at various points …there was always more than one ending to the story or you sometimes never made it to the end of a story! We would like you to create a similar story using software. Include some amazing science facts in your story. Games will be accessible throughout the Thistles via a QR code.
What’s your STEAM Story exhibition
12th October – ongoing
Bicycle Powered Scaletrics and Smoothie Bikes
19th October – 20th October
Start pedaling to generate the electricity required to make the cars speed around the track on our Bicycle Powered Scalextrics! Or generate energy to whilst pedaling on bikes to power blenders.
Lego Showcase and STEM boxes
20th – 21st October
20th – 21st October
First Session 12PM
Second Session 2PM
Join award-winning author Alan Windram and award-winning actress and presenter Rachel Kennedy as they come together in this highly interactive picture book event for three- to six-year-olds with sing-along songs, song writing, storytelling, and lots of fabulous visuals from the books. There will definitely be some ‘robot dancing too. Find out what happened when Benny pressed his button.
21st October
Come join Froglife and learn more about how to create, restore and manage ponds for amphibians and other wildlife! You can also join a novel virtual reality exhibition
How Clean Are you Hands? – activity by NHS Forth Valley
21st October
Under the Microscope – an introduction to microbiology, activity by NHS Forth Valley
21st October
Dementia Awareness Activity, activity by NHS Forth Valley
21st October