Sidmouth Science Festival
Programme 2014
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 19 October
Sidmouth
SCIENCE
Festival
TODAY I BECAME
AN INQUIRER
In beautiful buildings overlooking the sea in Sidmouth, St John’s
International School is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding
school, providing nursery, junior, senior and sixth form for 2-18 year olds.
As an IES school, we offer an international approach to learning, underpinned
by traditional, English independent school values.
Through our IGCSE programmes and as the first IB World School authorised to
teach the Primary Years Programme in the South West, we take a vibrant
and holistic approach both in and outside the classroom.
Our 2014 IGCSE results reflect this thirst for knowledge with the class of
2014 producing the school’s best results to date.
For more information about our forthcoming Senior and Sixth Form
open events visit www.stjohnsdevon.co.uk or call Mrs Jo Mason
on 01395 513984.
2014 IGCSE RESULTS
100% A*-C pass rate in both Co-ordinated Science & Physics
A SMALL ENGLISH SCHOOL WITH A BIG INTERNATIONAL HEART
Welcome
Welcome to the third Sidmouth Science Festival
brought to you by a team of volunteers from the
Vision Group for Sidmouth (VGS), part of the
Transition Town Movement.
We are very pleased to announce that the
University of Exeter has joined us this year
as a key partner.
Science Festival Team
The event programme goes from strength to
strength and this year we will be launching the
at the Festival. The range of activities and
presentations is impressive, with a wide
Mark Goodwin
University of Exeter
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
With so many technical issues being faced by
society we believe that our communities will
make better decisions if they have a deeper
understanding of the underlying science and
technology. We aim to make people aware of
how the STEM subjects (Science, Technology
Engineering and Maths) play a part in what
we take for granted in everyday life.
We are delighted to be working more closely
with the Sidmouth Science Festival this year.
Saturday 11 October 2014
Open Evening: Dwarf Planets
Observatory
Adults £6 Children £3
Sunday 12 October 2014
11.00am – Toll House Entrance
3.00pm
The Byes
Inter-Active Science Trail for all the family. Join EDDC Countryside Wardens and Sidmouth
Arboretum on an interactive science trail through the Byes. Identify and investigate bugs,
Buggy friendly.
Sidmouth Science Festival
Donations
Monday 13 October 2014
FabLab Devon
Bristol Medical Lab lorry.
Fungus Foray.
(College only)
Victor Papai.
Numbers limited. Reservations through the website.
Donations
Karla-Luise Herpoldt
draw upon her work with the Institute of Physics’ Women in Physics group.
(College Only)
John Ayres: What’s in a perfume? The chemistry and biology of smell.
(College Only)
Dr Keith Orrell
Donations
Tuesday 14 October 2014
Alison Rivett, University of Bristol
U3A Monthly Meeting
3.00pm
The Byes
(College Only)
Professor Philip Howse.
(Members Only)
Inter-Active Science Trail
EDDC Countryside
Wardens and Sidmouth Arboretum on a trail through the Byes.
(Schools Only)
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
Our Strange Universe – Three Paradoxes of Nature
Tuesday 14 October 2014
of Mathematics and Science. It worked, by the time of her death
wrote an algorithm.
Join us to hear some of the University’s female scientists talking about their subjects, research
Sidmouth Science Festival
7.30pm
Norman Lockyer
Claire Belcher
Earth System Science at the
surroundings much closer to home.
“My inspiration comes from what I can see outside my window. Our planet is simply
amazing, how all these living beings and the rocks beneath our feet work together to
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Earth Science Day
museum has permanent exhibitions
the area.
Special Festival Geology
Trend and others, preceded by an introductory talk and discussion.
4.45pm
7.30pm
Manor Pavilion
Theatre
Dr Roger
Sid Vale Association Talk by Professor Bill McGuire. Waking the Giant: How a changing
climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.
current book.
www.billmcguire.co.uk
Justine Janes
Suitable for ages 12yrs to adult.
Free but booking essential
Susan Senior 01395 562324 or email [email protected]
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
What’s in a name?
Entry to include refreshments £2
Thursday 16 October 2014
Schools’ Art Exhibition
Donations
3.00pm
The Byes
Inter-Active Science Trail
EDDC Countryside
Wardens and Sidmouth Arboretum on a trail through the Byes.
(Schools Only)
Otter Brewery to see how beer is brewed whilst still maintaining a sustainable
Sidmouth Science
Science Festival
Festival 2014
Sidmouth
2.30pm
Twyford House
Reservations through the website
Cost £6
Open to Question led by Dr Richard Skinner. Part of a regular monthly series of talks.
So you really want to work with animals?
Suitable for ages 12 yrs to adult.
Free but booking essential
Susan Senior 01395 562324 or email [email protected]
Kennaway House
Evening talk by Professor Iain Stewart, University of Plymouth. Planet Oil: the History of
a fossil fuel addiction.
geological and technological tipping points that transformed oil from an unwanted waste
product into a substance on which our modern world completely relies. Exploring the past, present
and future story of our petroleum addiction, it will ask if we really are coming to the end of the
Reservations through the website
Donations
Friday 17 October 2014
Project Day
Schools, judging and award ceremony. Presentation of the SidEnergy Sustainability
Shield for this year’s topic of Biodiversity.
Schools’ Art Exhibition.
Donations
Fossil Friday.
both local and exotic, and will answer all your questions about fossils. Open to all ages.
4.00pm
7.00pm
Kennaway House
Festival Reception by invitation only.
Evening Talk by Dr William Frith, Unilever R&D
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
Reservations through website
Donations
Super Science Saturday 18 October 2014
See website for more details of these talks.
11.00am
Dr Rose McCabe, Professor of Clinical Communication
University of Exeter Medical School
Prof Laurence Eaves CBE FRS, University of Nottingham
Dr Don Porcelli, University of Oxford
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Narmeen Rehman, MIMechE, EDF
4.30pm
Prof. David Gann CBE, Vice President, Development and Innovation.
Imperial College, London
Donations
5.00pm
House
Plant Heritage Devon Group
holders.
Join the Travelling Woolberries to knit a chromosome or a brain beanie hat. Find out how!
Marvel at the Exhibition of Science Research, Photographs from the University of Exeter.
Schools’ Art Exhibition
SidEnergy
Kennaway
House
Grand prizegiving for the Message in a Bottle Competition winners, Schools’ Art Winners
and other competitions.
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
5.00pm
Super Science Saturday 18 October 2014
Donations
Colyton Grammar School, Petroc College
University of Exeter Outreach Team bring their creepy crawlies for you to get to know.
5.00pm
5.00pm
FabLab Devon
5.00pm
return with their weather forecasting studio. Have a go at presenting the
Sidmouth Science Festival
experts your weather and climate questions.
Take part in a Niels Bohr experiment with Gerry Shattock from Exeter Science Park.
Sidmouth Microclimate Experiment
October 25th on the website.
Visit the Institute of Physics for some stimulating, engaging and interactive sessions.
Terry Pope, Inventor, showcases some of his optical illusions including a prototype of
5.00pm
Fore Street
Use #SidSF14 for your Tweets and photos around the Festival.
See them on the big screen in Pure Indulgence.
11.00am
Various venues
Sidbury Choir sing science related songs around town.
Photo Booth. Your chance to say what you like about the Sidmouth Science Festival.
Helen Keen: Robot Woman of Tomorrow
“Harnessing a sharp comedy sensibility to an arsenal of fascinating facts, she’s a treat
The Guardian
“Embodies all the best things about intellectual comedy. Smart without being elitist,
Spoonfed
Tickets available from Paragon Books or reserve through the website
Many thanks to everyone involved at the Geosciences Hall in creating this exciting programme
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
The Sunday Times
What’s in a Name?
An Exploration of Animal
So You Want to Work
with Animals?
An informal evening of
Animal Husbandry at Bicton
Plymouth University Partner
Colleges’ Most Dedicated Project
Tutor of the Year (2014), Justine
Janes will lead an interactive
session in Bicton’s Animal
Husbandry School.
An opportunity to meet animal
curators and veterinary nurses
(as well as some of our most
exotic species) at Bicton College.
Get ahead - plan your career!
Wednesday October 16th
18:00 - 19:30
Thursday October 17th
18:00 - 19:30
Book now!
Full Time & Part Time
University Level
courses in:
Animal Science (FdSc)
Horticulture (FdSc)
Sport (HND)
Call 01395 563408
www.bicton.ac.uk
Call 01395 562324 or
email [email protected]
to book your free place
Bicton College works in partnership with Plymouth University
degrees to the communities it serves. For more information,
please visit plymouth.ac.uk/academicpartnerships
Earth Science Week
(Geosciences Hall)
Saturday 18 October 2014
Earth Science Week
Geosciences Hall. Join the Geological Society of London, Jurassic Coast
World Heritage Site, British Geological Survey, Earth Science Education Unit, Geologists’
Association, Devonshire Association, Ussher Society, Rockwatch, Sidmouth Museum
and Usborne Publishing
short talks throughout the day. There’s even a
sponsored by the Geology Society,
so get baking. See website for details of how to enter.
Earth Science Short Talks
Start time
Talk details
11.30am
Building stones of Sidmouth; the stone used for the houses and walls in the town from local and more
distant sources.
12.00pm
Conserving the Jurassic Coast.
the currents will go?
Keele University, (Earth Science Education Unit)
1.00pm
Ancient Rivers and the Earliest Humans in Devon and Dorset. Professor Tony Brown, Southampton University.
(Ussher Society)
1.30pm
What is Geological Heritage?
2.00pm
What are the common misconceptions in Geoscience?
(Usborne Publishing)
2.30pm
Exploring Erosion: art communicating science.
3.00pm
The innovative use of new technologies in bringing collections from museum drawers onto the web.
Many thanks to everyone involved at the Geosciences Hall in creating this exciting programme.
University of Exeter
www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
12.30pm
Sunday 19 October
Choral Eucharist led by Reverend Stig Graham.
and St Nicholas
Sung Eucharist
The Power and the Glory, Science and God
by John Bryant, Professor Emeritus, Biosciences, University of Exeter.
Lifeboat to launch winning Messages from the Message in a Bottle
Find out about ocean currents.
Sidmouth Science Festival
and St Nicholas
Isca Ensemble with Martin Jones (piano) and Alexei Winter (tenor) present an
Afternoon Concert
Professor Brian Golding.
Ivor Gurney
Borodin
Elgar
Isca Ensemble
Trevor Taylor (violin)
£8
Sunday Funday at
The Norman Lockyer Observatory
Sunday 19 October
Adults £6 Children Free
Lecture Theatre
12.00pm
Professor Who does. He predicted the smart phone decades before its
time. He will tell you how you will learn and keep healthy, how long you can expect to live, what you will eat, how hot
our planet will be and will space travel be the norm. Professor Evan Parker is Professor Who!
2.30pm
Clive Lambert Hutchinson: Amateur Satellites
4.00pm
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Please refer to the website for further details. www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
Sunday Funday at the NLO continued
Committee Room
Lego© Robotics Workshop with Curiosity Hub
Children remain the responsibility of their accompanying adults at all times during the workshop.
Outside (Subject to weather conditions)
Jasper’s Catering
Visit the Telescopes in the Historic Domes
Quadcopters, Cube Satellites.
Jet Car Race
Gilbert Stephens, Solicitors.
Sidmouth Science Festival
Marquee
Hands-on activities to include rocket construction, Astro Scouts, competitions, meet a
spaceman, Raspberry Pi© demo, maths puzzles, satellites and more…plus Jet Car pit-stop.
Schools
Sidmouth Science Festival is committed to bringing STEM events to local schools and colleges so that our young people may
Dr Alison Rivett from Bristol University
and Karla-Luise Herpoldt from Imperial College
John Ayres
Venues
1. All Saints’ Church Hall, All Saints’ Road,
Sidmouth EX10 8ES
13
2. Bicton College, East Budleigh, Budleigh
Salterton EX9 7BY
5
3. The Byes, Toll house Entrance,
Salcombe Road, Sidmouth EX10 9AQ
A3
7
4. Kennaway House, Coburg Road,
Sidmouth EX10 8NG
5. The Leigh Browne Room, The Old
Meeting, All Saints Road, Sidmouth EX10 8ES
MAP
6. Manor Pavilion Theatre, Manor Road,
Sidmouth EX10 8RP
7. Masonic Hall, 112 High Street,
Sidmouth EX10 8EF
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BYES
8
B3176
9. Parish Church of St Giles and St Nicholas,
Church Street, Sidmouth EX10 8LG
10. Peak Hill Car Park, Peak Hill Road
EX10 0NN
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1 5
14
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4 12
6
10
PEAK HILL
8. Norman Lockyer Observatory,
Salcombe Hill, Sidmouth EX10 ONY
11. Pure Indulgence, 1 Fore Street,
Sidmouth EX10 8AQ
7
SALCOMBE HILL
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16
12. Sidmouth Museum Hope Cottage,
Church Street, Sidmouth EX10 8LY
13. Sidmouth College, Primley Road,
Sidmouth EX10 9LG
14. St John Ambulance Hall, Blackmore Drive,
Sidmouth EX10 8LA
15. Twyford House, Coburg Road,
Sidmouth EX10 8NF
16. Sidmouth Lifeboat, The Lifeboat Station,
The Esplanade, Sidmouth EX10 8BE
Housekeeping
Safety
is Kennaway House, which is also the Hub for the Festival.
Sponsors and Supporters
Many thanks to all the people who have made this festival
possible, from the small core team to the wider population
many of whom have given their time freely in the true spirit
of philanthropy. Thanks also to all the various businesses
and organisations who have contributed in some way.
First Aid
Key Partner
Photos
Photos will be taken at events some of which will then be used
for promotional purposes. If you do not wish to be included
please inform a steward.
University of Exeter
Supporters
British Geological Survey
Sidmouth Science Festival
Sponsors
Gilbert Stephens Solicitors
Keith Owen Fund
Kennaway House
Institute of Physics
Pure Indulgence
Sidmouth Museum
More details about events can be found on our website which is regularly updated www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org
or contact us at [email protected]
Events which require a reservation can be reserved through the website or at [email protected]
Next year’s Sidmouth Science Festival will take place from 11–18 October 2015
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