An exciting collaboration between the University and Discovery Planet, a Thanet-based, Community Interest Company (C.I.C) set up to bring exciting learning and creative experiences directly to the local community, now has a destination venue on Ramsgate High Street.
On 10 March, the innovative and welcoming community space was opened, where regular interactive workshops delivered by research scientists from Kent will take place over the coming years. The space opening was timed to coincide with British Science Week 2022 (11-20 March), a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths.
The hands-on workshops for school children and members of the community launched with a free three-day event called Light Fantastic, which explores the amazing properties of light. The Light Fantastic sessions were delivered by Kent’s Applied Optics Group (with the support of Dr Vicky Mason) and touched on the fact that light science has many medical applications, such as enabling an examination of people’s eyes. There were 500 participants over the three days, including 242 students between the ages of 8-14 from nine schools and over 100 members of the public.
Light Fantastic is the first of a series of monthly workshops taking place through to Autumn 2022.
More information (and full press release) in the University’s news page, here.
Some photos from the event (photo credit: Pete Bateson, Discovery Planet, and NETLAS ESR Gopika Venugopal)
