School Visit, February 2024
Dr Welch visited KS3 and KS4 students and introduced the field of evolutionary genealogies, and tried to show how tracking allele frequencies and inferring genealogies gives us a set of tools for understanding all of life. He showed how the tools are both useful for tracking pathogen outbreaks, and essential for understanding the extraordinary examples of apparent design in nature.
Our volunteers were: Dr John Welch
Bright Horizons Nursery, March 2024
A team of volunteers from the Steventon Group attended Bright Horizons Nursery and hosted two activities. The children had the opportunity to make liquid rainbows from liquids with different densities. The children also pipetted different coloured liquid into a 12-well plate to make a pattern.
Our volunteers were: Alejandra Guzman Herrera, Clara Mutschler, Nick New, Stephanie Telerman, Alice Yuen and Imen Lassadi
Cambridge Festival, March 2024
We had a fantastic team of volunteers help out at this year's Cambridge Festival. On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th March we ran various activities including extracting DNA from a strawberry, creating candy DNA and pipetting fun patterns.
Our volunteers were: Sean Scinta, Alexandra Neaverson, Tharini Kumar, Mark Fernandes, Aishani Chakraborty, Kate Baker, Juliette Davis, Ariella Weinberg-Shukron, Alexandre Porcher Fernandes, Alex Cagan, Dillan Saunders and Emily Kempin.
Previous year's outreach and public engagement activities: