Maggie Boyd’s beautiful beastie made our judges beam!
Maggie Boyd from Newtongrange entered our ‘Design a bug or beastie’ competition. Our judges were enchanted by her design, which won the 5-8 years category. Maggie described it like this: “The ‘Jellyscorpagi’ is made of jelly. It is famous for it’s cuteness and square nose and is solar powered. Sun goes in one pincer and goes all around the body and makes it glow. Then it comes out of the other...
Stephen scribes his way to success.
Stephen Catterall sharpened his pencil, put his mind to work, and produced this poem to win our Cell Poetry competition. He came to Dalkeith Library to collect his certificate and prize. One hundred billion neurons whirring in my brain help me to remember how to write my name Skin cells enveloping every part of me stops my insides falling out wouldn’t you agree? Beautiful red blood cells travel through my veins oxygen...
Our youngest Bugs and Beasties Designer is Maya!
Maya Duran from Edinburgh visited us at Science in the Glen on the 4th of October. She spend some time at our design a bug or beastie activity, and our judges loved the results! She came to Danderhall Library to collect her certificate and prize. Here is her winning entry. Well drawn...
Dominic designs a winner!
Dominic Forest of Roslin won the age 9-12 category in our ‘Design a Bug or a Beastie’ Competition with his wonderful, colourful creation. And here is Dominic at Roslin Library with his winners certificate and prize. Well done Dominic! Thank you to all of you who entered this year’s competitions. Winners in the Bugs and Beasties 0-4 category, 5-8 category, and winner of the Cell poetry competition will appear next...
Meet Ben, winner of the Rocket Launch competition 2015!
Ben Freeland won this year’s farthest launch, with a whopping 44 metre blast during the Mayfield Library Science Gala Day on the last day of this years Festival, October the 17th. Here he is with his prize, certificate, and of course, his amazing rocket! Well done to all of you who launched rockets with us this year, we had great fun! Rocket launching will return next year, so look closely at Ben’s design, and for...
Dino Dig in Dalkeith is done and dusted
And what a feast for all the senses Dalkeith Dino Dig Day was! Saltersgate Art Department did us proud designing and making all the elements involved, and all the prehistoric creatures were represented – from the humble trilobite to Big Al and ‘his’ eggs as seen in the pic. And after a manic day for both MSF staff, Volunteers, Midlothian Library staff and chief designer Amy Collop – Art teacher at Saltergate School,...
Dancing Light Date Error
Please note that there was a printing error and the four Dancing Light Sessions are on Wed 14th Oct and not Tues 13th as stated in the brochure. We wholeheartedly apologise for this error and hope that it has not inconvenienced you too much. Details of the event and all the booking info can be found here where you can also book the events via...
A little ‘light’ reading
Midlothian Science Festival celebrates International Year of Light 2015 UNESCO has designated 2015 as the International Year of Light to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the work of a Scottish scientist who showed that light consists of electromagnetic waves. The scientist was James Clerk Maxwell, a member of the Clerk family of Penicuik Estate, who was born in Edinburgh but spent his childhood on a country estate at Glenlair,...
Midlothian Science Festival opens with a POP!
This is our Press Release issued today (1st Oct) in excited advance of our festival running from 2nd (tomorrow!!) until 17th Oct! We’re very excited about bringing this to you – come out and see us as often as you can. Midlothian Science Festival is delighted to have “POP!” the award-winning entertainer, open the festival this week with his fascinating bubble show. This innovative event will take place on...
Events are selling out! Get your orders in..
We are delighted to announce that some of our events have already sold out (and wish we could squeeze more of you in). Stargazing at Roslin Chapel, Wildfood Walk from Gorebridge Library, App Developer at Lasswade Library and Advanced Minecraft at Newtongrange all full up! We have loads of events though, so you can still book up for something wonderful. Our launch event at Mayfield Library this Friday 2nd Oct at 2pm will be fun packed....
Book your events NOW
More eagerly anticipated than a Glastonbury ticket launch day all the Midlothian Science Festival Events are now LIVE and available for booking right here, right now! Let’s see how quickly we can fill those seats… and remember that some of the events are limited space-wise and we wouldn’t want you to miss out. You can search the Events by Venue, type etc. and don’t forget to download a brochure to whet your...
Website Events go LIVE on Wed 9th
Itching to book cool science events? Well, you will be able to in less than 48 hrs as the the events will go LIVE on Wed 9th @ 9am. Get in quick and you won’t miss out on some of this year’s hot tickets.
Download Brochure Now
Well it’s what you have been waiting for and it’s now ready to DOWNLOAD so fingers on the button… GO!! You can Download it using the link at the top of the page or the button below or even just the word “Download” at the start of this sentence! Download Brochure (no. 2,530)...
Brochure ready to download tomorrow!
Wow we did it! You can download from the link from tomorrow. You will start to spy paper copies all over the Lothians from tomorrow too. Watch this space for the launch of this years events on the web. ...
2015 Brochure on the way
The excitement is building here as our stunning brochure for 2015 is off to the printers! Have a sneaky peek.. It will be available to view/download from 2nd...
Learn about Li-Fi at Lasswade!
What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? We are thrilled to have Professor Harald Haas delivering the key note lecture at this year’s festival. Prepare for a lecture with a difference as Prof Hass talks about and demonstrates his ground breaking work. He will appear at the Lasswade Centre on Monday the 5th Oct at 7pm. Get a preview of what’s in store here Li-Fi....
Report from the Chair
Today we post our ‘Report from the Chair 2014’. Click here to have a look at what we achieved last year in summary. Following our AGM on the 15th June 2105 the following Directors have been elected: Philip Wark, Director and Chair, Sarah Keer-Keer, Director and Treasurer, Fiona Maher, Director and Jane Milne, Director. Events for this year will be available to view on this website from the End of...
It’s all in the planning.
We are delighted to announce that planning for this years festival is going very well, and we have some super science events already in place in Midlothian for October. From interesting, stimulating adult events, to family friendly gala days and lovely library sessions, we have it all! Over the next few weeks, we will show you some of the amazing photographs from last years events. These pictures were taken at the Glencorse...
Big thank you to Midlothian Councillors
The Midlothian Science Festival would like to thank the following Midlothian Councillors for their generous donations to this years Festival programme. The money is a massive boost to the work we do. Jim Bryant Bob Constable Catherine Johnstone Ian Baxter Derek Rosie Joe Wallace We are hard at work planning this years festival programme, and already have many hours of entertaining Science to showcase in Midlothian’s community....
Rockets and Spider Silk Designs Online
The rockets and spider silk inventions were so great – we’ve put them up online. See here for Rockets and here for Spider Silk inventions (from Danderhall only so far) Can you spot yours? Watch out for next years...
