{"id":1497,"date":"2016-10-18T20:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chemistryinaction.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2016-10-18T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:42:47","slug":"real-science-a-junior-chemistry-at-work-event-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/real-science-a-junior-chemistry-at-work-event-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL SCIENCE &#8211; A Junior Chemistry at Work Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to more demonstrators coming forward we have been\u00a0able to take\u00a0over 700 Year 6 Children and include\u00a0nearly all those on the waiting list. Once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spherescience.co.uk\/\">Sphere Science<\/a> fascinated the children with their hands on demonstration in which they had to wire\u00a0up DC electic motors to solar cells and see, not only, how fast they could make them run\u00a0but also how they could\u00a0make them turn the other way.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/soapboxscience.org\/\">Soapbox Science<\/a> stepped in to provide a much needed extra demonstration on &#8220;Black Grass&#8221; showing\u00a0how scientists\u00a0are trying to eliminate it from\u00a0our crops while the Open University provided exciting wiz bangs and other effects\u00a0with\u00a0oxygen again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgschoolprograms.com\/\">Proctor &amp;\u00a0Gamble<\/a> had them making gel, the bees facinated them and water treatment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/CR\/Responsibleoperations\/Communityinvestment\/Afocusoneducation\/index.html\">Thames Water<\/a> including soils, roads, worms, building real bridges, phorsesic science from the police, the horse and its diet, printing and how poisons work.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to more demonstrators coming forward we have been\u00a0able to take\u00a0over 700 Year 6 Children and include\u00a0nearly all those on the waiting list. Once again Sphere Science fascinated the children with their hands on demonstration in which they had to wire\u00a0up DC electic motors to solar cells and see, not only, how fast they could\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/real-science-a-junior-chemistry-at-work-event-2-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}