{"id":21865,"date":"2024-09-19T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/?p=21865"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T12:40:11","slug":"engineerings-family-fun-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/engineerings-family-fun-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering\u2019s Family Fun Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwe.ac.uk\/research\/centres-and-groups\/scu\">Science Communication Unit (SCU)<\/a> Inspire Sustainability team welcomed over 900 people from across the city into UWE Engineering on Saturday 6<sup>th<\/sup> July 2024 to explore a range of different science and engineering activities. It was a wonderful day and the team received loads of great feedback. Watch the video to get an insight into the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FamilyFunDay2024\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8JVMTohad0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Activities included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Planetarium show called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/over-a-thousand-local-children-inspired-to-engineer-a-sustainable-future\/\">We Make our Future<\/a>\u2018 about how we can use human ingenuity and engineering skills to make a brighter future for our planet (the Inspire Sustainability team commissioned this show which Explorer Dome created and took to COP26 as well as into loads of local schools)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flight and Driving Simulators \u2013 two very popular activities provided by UWE\u2019s Digital Gallery<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robot building experience \u2013 was constantly surrounded by kids and adults alike building and coding Lego robots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Immersion in Bristol Minecraft worlds \u2013 everyone headed up the stairs to design changes to their city in the digital worlds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/physicsinthefreezer\/\">Physics in the Freezer<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 David Williams provided an awesome show with liquid nitrogen and magnets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wind Turbine activity \u2013 some examples of wind turbine blade designs can be seen below \u2013 who could generate the most electricity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/animazing.toys\/\">Anibotics<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 families flocked to the animations and free giveaways David Smee and his team had on offer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eco-House \u2013 Deborah Adkins had her wonderfully interactive Eco-houses on display<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Tinker Table \u2013 children loved getting hands on using tools to tear apart all the broken down electrical items donated as part of the UWE\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/how-the-makers-project-is-supporting-students-to-develop-hands-on-skills-and-boost-employability\/\">MAKERS repair cafe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"21866\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Family-fun-day-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21866\" 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https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Family-fun-day-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"21867\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Family-fun-day-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Family-fun-day-4.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Family-fun-day-4-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science Communication Unit (SCU) Inspire Sustainability team welcomed over 900 people from across the city into UWE Engineering on Saturday 6th July 2024 to explore a range of different science and engineering activities. It was a wonderful day and the team received loads of great feedback. Watch the video to get an insight into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/engineerings-family-fun-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Engineering\u2019s Family Fun Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":21862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":854,"footnotes":""},"categories":[854,8,908,3,4,18,21],"tags":[756,909,899,907],"class_list":["post-21865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-arts-technology-and-environment","category-education-outreach","category-school-of-engineering","category-science-communication","category-science-communication-unit","category-science-technology-engineering","category-sustainability-the-environment","tag-inspire-sustainability","tag-makers-repair-cafe","tag-uwe-engineering","tag-uwe-family-fun-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions\/21870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}