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Buckle up and prepare for a voyage of spectacular science at this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival as it celebrates its twentieth birthday.

Jon Chase (main image) and Evie Meg (above)

Cheltenham Science Festival is back in all its live splendour, with a host of exciting activities for families and children. Wonder at galaxies far, far away with Star Wars expert Jon Chase, and learn about the super science behind everyone’s favourite superheroes in ‘The Science of Superheroes’. BBC One Show’s Marty Jopson presents his electrifying show ‘One Million Volts’ while Stefan Gates and his robot cat/dog Clank reveals the weird and wonderful science behind our favourite furry friends in ‘Dogol-

Free interactive zones ogy vs Catology’. Oceanographer Russell Arnott

Activities at Cheltenham Science Festival

MakerShack: code a robot, reveals the fascinating world try out a virtual reality head- of marine chemistry and goes set, discover curious squidgy head-to-head with marine biolostuff, and celebrate all gist Claudia Allen in a fact-batthings material with expert tle to decide who’s best in ‘Shark makers, crafters, scientists vs Whale’. and engineers. ‘Bake-Off’ finalist Andrew

The Arcade: fun, creative Smyth demos his “bakineering” and cryptic challenges ex- skills and Jamie Gallagher exploring the cyber world. plores the scientific playground

Discover Zone: find out of ‘Kitchen Chemistry’. Comedy about the incredible tech- and quantum mechanics comnology transforming our bine in ‘The Quantum Qrumpet’ planet. presented by ANTS Theatre.

There are even more free Free events on the Apollo stage activities to explore in the for all ages include festival

GE Pavilion, the Hartpury guest curator Alom Shaha

Science Hub, the Wood- transforming household objects land Trust’s Nature Detec- into homemade toys, a drawtives and a Science Trail. ing workshop with ‘BLOBFISH!’ author Olaf Falafel, demonstra-

Marty Jobson

tions and explosive experiments from Science Made Simple, juggling and circus skills with a science theme, and fun forensics with Diatom Dave.

WIN A FAMILY DAY OUT AT THE FESTIVAL!

Win a family day out at Cheltenham Science Festival on Saturday 11 June with a set of four tickets to two fabulous shows – ‘The Science of Star Wars’ with Jon Chase at 10am and ‘One Million Volts’ with Marty Jopson at 2pm. That leaves you plenty of time to explore the whole Science Festival site and take in all the interactive zones.

To enter, simply answer the following question correctly:

How old is Cheltenham Science Festival this year?

Send your reply, marked CHELT SCIFEST COMP, to gloscompetitions@primarytimes.co.uk by Mon 30 May stating your hometown and a mobile number for us to contact you about the prizes. The winner will be chosen at random and notified shortly after that date.

Cheltenham Science Festival Tuesday 7 June – Sunday 12 June www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/ science