19th – 22nd October
Stirling Science Festival is back with a bang!
The annual festival, now in its third year, will return this October with a fun packed programme including special guests Our Dynamic Earth.
Taking place during the school autumn break (19 – 22 October), this year’s line-up includes a host of free interactive events; from science shows and coding challenges to Lego workshops and even an inter-schools weave off.
Events will take place across Stirling from the Tolbooth and Albert Halls to local libraries and Thistles Shopping Centre from 19-22 October.
For information on each event click here or see the programme below. More events will be added soon!
Tolbooth Exhibition 6th October – 29th October part of Stirling Science Festival
The Tolbooth gallery will show an ambitious film exploring the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in an age of avatars, video gaming and DNA Ancestry testing.
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.
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.
12th October – ongoing
Join the team from Dynamic Earth and take a deep-dive into Scotland’s marine Heritage with Discover the Deep! With lots of hands-on activities and experiences on offer – including the chance to see real deep-sea specimens and carry out your own biodiversity survey of a deep-water reef – there’s something for the whole family to enjoy!
Come and look through the impressive 133 year old Newtonian reflective telescope within the copper domed observatory of the category A listed Stirling Highland Hotel. See views of Saturn’s rings and Titon it’s largest moon; Jupiter and the 4 Galilean Moons… and after 9pm Mars!
19th October – 16th November
This interactive touring exhibition aims to raise awareness of the science and issues around air quality. It encourages visitors of all ages to think about their local environment and the quality of the air, how poor air quality can affect them and their family and how we can all help to improve air quality through our daily choices.
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.
Learn about World War II codebreaking and intercept and decode radio messages. Using Microbit based replicas of encoding machines, participants will use Morse code to hunt down submarines in an exciting game of cat and mouse.
This interactive show examines superstition and ‘luck’ in more detail. There is also a powerful demonstration of mind reading to encourage a more sceptical and critical outlook on things – we encourage the audience to work out how it is done. Overall I hopefully persuade people to look at things a little more critically – the bump in the night is probably the heating pipes rather than a ghost! The idea is drawn from a book by Richard Wiseman called ‘The Luck Factor’ where he examined many people, some who thought they were lucky and some who thought they led unlucky lives, and came up with 4 principles of luck.
Follow the Dinosaur Detectives as they search for clues about the past.
Once upon a time enormous creatures walked the earth, creatures that became known in Victorian times as Dinosaurs.
The Dinosaur Detectives follow a fascinating journey of discovery, fun and conflict surrounding the first fossil finds of Mary Anning, William Buckland and Gideon Mantell. A Historical story with puppetry combined with projection and shadow theatre create their fascinating world.
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.
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.
21st October, by NHS Forth Valley
21st October, by NHS Forth Valley
An introduction to microbiology
21st October by NHS Forth Valley
Join writer and story teller Liza Miles as she shares her favourite science stories and then create your own book ‘My Big Science Adventure…’ with help from artist Dawn McLaren.
To book – email fallinlibrary@stirling.gov.uk or Tel: 01786 812492
Join writer and story teller Liza Miles as she shares her favourite science stories and then create your own book ‘My Big Science Adventure…’ with help from artist Dawn McLaren.
To book – email fallinlibrary@stirling.gov.uk or Tel: 01786 812492
Come to CodeBase to find out more about what they do and how to get involved or to learn some digital skills.
Join us in the Albert Halls for a great, fun day for all the family. There’ll be science activities, interactive circus skills and a stilt walker.
BodyVision is an interactive exhibition that aims to educate children about the human body. The exhibition will be visiting St Ninians Library as part of Stirling Science Festival.
The festival is produced by Stirling Council in partnership with, Dynamic Earth, Forth Valley College, the University of Stirling, Codebase, Thistle Stirling, City Fibre. Supported by EventScotland, Scottish Government.
