This is a family event with over 30 FREE exhibitions which you don’t need to book – just turn up and explore! Explore a seagrass meadow, build your own battery and solar-powered toys, discover how ancient Egyptians mummified their dead and learn how to love a maggot!
Take a look at what exhibitions are on offer
Discover how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead with our life-sized dummy mummy
Get up close with fossils, plants and animals of all shapes and sizes from the spectacular collections of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. Meet our Museum Scientists and hear about our research and collections, from your doorstep to the far-flung corners of the Earth
Visit the team of Plantasia Tropical Zoo to learn about their rainforest collection, and meet some of their favourite animals, including snakes, reptiles and creepy crawlies. Featuring free prize give aways throughout the day
Turn your fear, disgust or disdain for maggots on its head at our Love a Maggot exhibit hosted by the Swansea University Maggot Research Group
Join us to learn more about how Materials Scientists and Engineers are developing solutions for a sustainable future. Get hands on with microscopy, building your own battery and solar powered toys
Come along to our robot workshop and meet our robot dogs and 8 foot robot cat
Bring Energy to Life with Ynni Da. Be part of this wonderful exploration into energy, build and experiment with wonderful renewable energy resources. Saving energy can be fun and keep you fit.
Would you like to turn your dreams into a work of art? Tell Sleep Scientist Mark Blagrove all about your dream and then paint it with artist Julia Lockheart.
Sunday only, 2.00 - 4.00pm
Throw the bean bags at the different targets to show your knowledge of what affects healthy children and healthy family life
Discover how Hydrogen can stop us from polluting and provide a green prosperous future!
Love Gaming? Then come along to the Esports Wales stand and learn about the gaming scene in Wales.
We will showcase how we intend to capture heat from industry and use it to provide space heating. To demonstrate, we’ll run an interactive event where participants can generate heat from our materials using their own breath.
Understand how the ear works and why some people are Deaf and hard of hearing. Learn your name in British Sign Language
We are running a coding competition for all age groups from 7 to 16 over the weekend with some fantastic IT prizes to be won. There will be lots of hands-on activities for you to get involved with, if entering the competition isn’t your thing. You don’t want to miss this!
A bargain bookstall of science books for children and adults. All money raised will go to OXFAM to support renewable energy projects in communities dealing with the impact of climate change.
Think you can beat our Robot Rubik’s Cube solver? How about scoring a goal in our robot football? How about programming a hole-in-one with our robotics mini-golf course? Come along and take part at our Technocamps exhibition stand!
An opportunity to drive trains on our model railway and learn about how our smart railway system works.
What do you see as the most important development in healthcare over the NHS's 75-year history? Vote for your favourite, and write your messages for the NHS in our giant birthday card.
Microbiology Scramble is easy if you’ve ever played Scrabble, and is a great way to get both children and adults to engage with microbiology.
Practice your engineering skills and learn how the Swansea University Race Engineering (SURE) Team designs and builds cars to be aerodynamically efficient! Come along to the Oriel Science stand to compete against others and learn how to make a CD hovercraft.
Food for thought: How much do you think about food? Come and enjoy some SNACks with us, as we explore the science behind what we eat, food choice, the influencing factors driving our eating behaviour, and ways to eat a more healthy and sustainable diet.
Get hands-on with the microbial world by seeing their shapes, and playing with the molecules and materials microbes make that can also be used as novel drugs, coatings and adhesives.
Our fun, noisy and very interactive mathematics exhibits and education resources entertain visitors and create interest in applied mathematics. Making mathematics enjoyable and accessible.
Outreach activities to raise the profile of Astronomy in Swansea with demonstrations of telescopes and equipment used in the pursuit of the hobby from a few members of Swansea Astronomical Society.
Learn how evolution controls water repellency. Interactive exhibits demonstrating the wonder of nature's patterns.
We've resurrected an exciting range of devices from the genesis of personal computing for you to enjoy and try yourself! Leap the gap from text to graphics by mastering the Dragon and polishing the Apple: earn, work, and play like it's the 1980s and bring back nostalgic memories or marvel at what impressed your parents and grandparents.
Learn how to identify species of sharks through an immersive virtual reality experience designed for Project SIARC, by Swansea University MSc students. Examine, handle, grasp, and delve into the fascinating details of shark eggs like never before.
Guess the objects found on a remote, uninhabited island in one of the largest and most pristine Marine Protected Areas in the world. Rate the beach – guess the best to worst for plastic pollution.
Nature's Toolbox: Find out how natural products can help provide a greener future. We will explore the potential of natural products from microbes, from algal machines to (insect) killer fungi!
We will showcase devices built in the Biomedical Engineering Simulation & Testing (BEST) Lab that replicate organs seen in the body. Visitors can interact with physical organ models learning about physiology and biomechanics from our research Team.
Who makes the earth under your feet? It’s the small things that make the soils super and the flowers flourish.
A carnival booth for pre-school and older in which contestants fish for ducks and then answer a question on the secret gas listed on the bottom. Prizes for the right answers.
Introducing a 3D printer for STEM creativity with a delicious twist! Join us for branded freebies, colouring and face-painting fun!
Exhibition stands stated may be subject to change. If you have any comments on these webpages or content please contact swanseasciencefestival@swansea.ac.uk
