Category: Science Group

*An opportunity for all members:*

A presentation about aspects of Dementia

Dementia is a syndrome of brain decline that affects memory, thinking, language, mood and behaviour.

Different types of dementia can affect people differently, and everyone will experience symptoms in their own way.

Many of us have experienced it to some degree through its effect on family and friends.

This is an open invitation to come along to the Science group meeting on

 Friday 20^th September from 10am to approx 11.15am in the main hall at JGC.

 We are delighted to host a presentation from Dr Alison Cowley and Dr Collins about their current research and clinical work around aspects of Dementia.

If you are not a science group member and wish to join this meeting please send a brief email to:

davidrose98835@gmail.com

There was no meeting in August.

Our September meeting is on Friday 20^th September from 10am.

 We are delighted to host a presentation from Dr Alison Cowley and Dr Collins about their current research and clinical work around aspects of Dementia.

For more details please see the additional information in this newsletter.

At our July meeting members of the group arrived with their homework which was to create an image using an early photographic technique called Cyanotype.

The image is formed on light sensitive thin card and the results varied due to differing qualities of the cards purchased for the activity.

More of the better quality was made available at the meeting for members to try again and some of the results are shown below.

Creating more images was only part of a practical session to discover things about magnets, mirrors, lenses, gyroscopes and diffraction spectrum by looking through diffraction spectacles.

We finished with an end of term quiz won by the ‘Berrill Catering’ team.

There is no meeting in August our next meeting is on Friday 20^th September. 

At our June meeting Terry Hill summarised the importance of the work of the late Sir Peter Higgs of Higgs Boson fame.

He made a fantastic job of explaining the very challenging concept of how the Higgs boson was proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs, François Englert, and four other theorists to explain why certain particles have mass.

Scientists confirmed its existence in 2012 through experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. This discovery led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Higgs and Englert.

After Terry’s talk we had an attempt to produce a cyanotype image using light sensitive paper. Members were given their own paper to try this at home; the resulting images will be displayed at a later date.

Last year a topic we covered was about sustainability in fashion. Much of today’s ‘fast fashion’ ends in landfill rather than being recycled. Science member Christine Vincent has a particular interest in this field and modelled a very creative colourful dress she has made from old ties.

Next Meeting

Friday 19^th July 10.00am – 11.45am, JGC- please bring your cyanotype results.

16^th August – No meeting as we are away.

We will reconvene on Friday 20^th September.

We next meet at 10.00am on Friday June 21^st in the main hall at JGC.

Terry Hill is presenting a talk about the late Peter Higgs who famously predicted the existence of what became known as the Higgs-Boson particle. Learn more from Terry on the 21^st.

We will then have a demonstration of cyanotype imaging and you will receive a kit to make your own. Please bring your result along to our July 19th meeting.

In the style of Blue Peter-‘One I made earlier’

After the break there is a presentation about the animals that live and coexist in the different layers of Rain Forests.