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Holiday workshops: Forensics (ages 12–14)

Mon 04 Aug 2025

Experience what it would be like to work in a forensics lab by investigating a fictional crime scene.

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Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 7–8)

Fri 01 Aug 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 12-14)

Thu 31 Jul 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 9-11)

Thu 31 Jul 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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YSC Holiday workshops: Bacterial evolution (ages 15–18)

Wed 30 Jul 2025

Using restriction enzyme digests and gel electrophoresis, explore and analyse real bacterial DNA

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Holiday workshops: Designing for plants (ages 7–8)

Mon 28 Jul 2025

Perfect for curious minds, this session investigates architecture and design.

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Holiday workshops: An expanding universe of knowledge (ages 15–18)

Fri 15 Aug 2025

Find out how much we've now been able to discover about the universe in which we live, and how much there is still to find out!

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Holiday workshops: Intro to evolution (ages 9–11)

Mon 04 Aug 2025

Life started approximately 3.5 billion years ago – so why did it take so long to make us and why are we all different?

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Holiday workshops: Intro to evolution (ages 7–8)

Mon 04 Aug 2025

Life started approximately 3.5 billion years ago – so why did it take so long to make us and why are we all different?

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Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 7–8)

Thu 29 May 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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