The Big Bang Fair Show Guide 2012 by The Big Bang Fair

Your Show Guide The NEC, Birmingham, 15 – 17 March 2012

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Contents

3 Welcome from Vince Cable MP and David Willetts MP 4 Welcome from Dr Paul Golby CBE FREng. Chairman, The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair 5 Welcome from The Big Bang Team 6 Sponsors

33 The Next Factor 36 Hidden World 37 Making Trax 41 Farm to Fork 43 Special Features 44 Questions on Careers 46 The X Plus Why? Factor Educational Resources Zone

7 Timetables 16 The Big Bang Fair Map 21

29 Go Global

Body Talk

48 National Science & Engineering Competition 53 Index

25 Energise

59 The Big Bang Near Me

General Information For any questions whilst you are at The Big Bang Fair, speak to a volunteer in a red t-shirt or visit the Central Information Point. Emergency: In the event of a venue emergency, the security team will manage evacuation of the building. If you need medical assistance, please contact the nearest volunteer or the Central Information Point. Security and lost property: We are unable to accept responsibility for any property brought on site. You are advised to keep your belongings with you at all times. To report a loss or theft, please go to the Central Information Point. Cloakroom: There is a cloakroom available between Halls 6 & 7 where visitors can store bags and coats for £1 per item. Money: The nearest cash points to The Big Bang Fair are in the Atrium opposite Hall 8, next to Hall 6, and opposite ‘food to you’ located near to the Hall 6 entrance by Concourse Suites 1&2. There are also cash points inside and outside the Natwest Bank by Hall 4 and opposite Hall 18. All non Natwest Bank machines will charge for withdrawing cash. Catering: The main catering outlets are at the back of Hall 6&7. Picnic seating areas are located to the back right corner of The Next Factor. Further refreshments are available throughout the boulevard at various venue catering establishments.

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Lost children: If you become lost or lose a member of your group, please inform the nearest volunteer or go to the Central Information Point. Volunteers: There will be many volunteers on site who will be able to help answer your questions and direct you around the event. Opening and closing times: The main exhibition floor will be open between 9am and 6pm, Thursday 15th, Friday 16th and Saturday 17th March. There are also shows and workshops happening throughout the day. More information about these can be found throughout this guide. People’s Choice Award: For your chance to win an iPad vote for the competitor project you like the most. Please talk to the competitors about their work, then vote for your favourite by filling in the form given to you at registration. How to get the most out of your visit: Please ensure you arrive 30 minutes before any scheduled activity to guarantee your place and ensure your activity can begin on time. We want everyone to get the most out of their experience at The Big Bang Fair. Science & Engineering Experts – STEM Guides Our roving scientists and engineers are available to help you with any science or engineering questions you may have. Look for the volunteers in white t-shirts: these volunteers are all science or engineering professionals who are happy to talk to you about their career and share their expertise. If you can’t see a STEM Guide nearby, go to the Central Information Point to talk to someone there.

Welcome The Big Bang Fair 2012

Foreword by Vince Cable MP and David Willetts MP

We are delighted to support the fourth Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair in Birmingham. Scientists and engineers are vital to our national success. They will develop the tools and technologies necessary for economic prosperity and sustainable living. We estimate that the UK is going to need well over two million engineers over the next five to 10 years alone, so it’s vital that we inspire the next generation. It is therefore very encouraging that The Big Bang Fair 2012 has attracted a record 50,000 registrations from young people, teachers and parents – and that more than 150 organisations from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) community are participating. The young people who have reached the final of the National Science & Engineering Competition – The Fair’s centre-piece – represent the best and brightest young talent from around the country. The Government is doing everything it can to increase that pool of talent, so that the UK can look to the future with confidence and optimism.

The Rt. Hon Vince Cable MP Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

The Rt. Hon David Willets MP Minister for Universities and Science

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Welcome

Welcome to The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair 2012, featuring the finals of the National Science & Engineering Competition. The Big Bang Fair is the biggest single celebration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for young people in the UK. This year is our biggest yet. The Fair is full to capacity – more than 50,000 people have registered to attend. On Thursday and Friday we will be welcoming students and teachers from schools and colleges across the country, with Saturday open to families, so that parents and guardians can join their children in discovering the wonders of science and engineering. With the vast range of activities, shows and exhibits on offer, The Fair provides an inspirational introduction to the world of science and engineering. The crucial message behind all the ‘fun of The Fair’, however, is that there is a wealth of exciting opportunities available to young people both in education and beyond into the world of work. The students exhibiting at The Fair are competing for prizes, most notably as part of The National Science & Engineering Competition. For these young people, to have got through the heats at a Near Me event and reached the finals at The Big Bang Fair is in itself a great achievement. I would like to congratulate them all and wish them the very best, not just for these competitions but for their future education and careers. More than simply a great day out, The Big Bang programme aims to deliver an ongoing engagement with young people, their parents and teachers – a “year round conversation”. The Near Me events that take place across the country provide an opportunity for more young people to experience, close to home,

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the excitement and opportunities available. We also work with the media and online to help more young people understand that studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics at school, college and university can open up a whole range of exciting and rewarding career opportunities. Involving over 150 different organisations, The Big Bang Fair 2012 represents an unprecedented partnership between Government, education, industry and the wider science and engineering communities. I would like to thank all of those who have supported this fantastic celebration of science and engineering and hope that you will continue to do so in future years. By the time today’s school pupils are of working age, the UK will need over two million additional engineers to meet the needs of our nation. The Big Bang is playing a vital role in providing young people with the support and inspiration needed to ensure that they become the scientists and engineers to address the challenges of the future.

Dr Paul Golby CBE FREng Chairman, The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair

Welcome

Welcome to The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair, the biggest event of its kind in the country. Our exciting theatre shows, hands-on workshops and stands will show you the wonderful world of science, technology, engineering and maths and you’ll have the chance to talk to scientists and engineers about the fascinating jobs they have. Build bridges with chocolate, test your speed and strength, learn about the forces behind rollercoasters, see robots, flying penguins and much, much more! Meet the finalists in the National Science & Engineering Competition – young people just like you. Chat with these students, find out about the fascinating projects they have been working on. And maybe next year you could join us as a finalist yourself...

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Sponsors Led by

Supported by

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is making a difference by supporting sustained growth and higher skills across the economy.

In Partnership with

We are proud to support The Big Bang Fair as an effective and fun way of inspiring the scientists and engineers of tomorrow – keeping the UK a centre for world class research and development.

The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust is an independent charity whose principal purpose is to support advances in transportation, science, engineering and technology education, training and research worldwide for the benefit of all. It also funds work that enhances the safety of life and property at sea, on land and in the air.

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. It supports the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. The Trust’s breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. It is independent of both political and commercial interests.

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Gatsby is a Trust set up by David Sainsbury to realise his charitable objectives. We focus our support on a limited number of areas. In education we aim to strengthen science and engineering skills in the UK by developing innovative programmes and informing national policy. For more information see our website www.gatsby.org.uk

Birmingham City Council is the largest unitary authority in Europe, providing a full range of public services to more than one million people within the city. With an annual budget of £3.5 billion per year, it also employs more than 43,000 staff, both directly and within 440+ schools.

With 20 interconnecting halls, at the heart of the UK’s transport network, the NEC continues to be a conference and exhibition venue of today, and of the future. It stages around 138 trade and consumer events each year, ranging from world-famous public shows such as Crufts and Clothes Show Live, to huge international trade exhibitions like IFSEC and Spring Fair, Birmingham.

Lead Sponsors

BAE Systems is one of the world’s largest defence and security companies and in the UK supplies the armed forces with military aircraft, submarines, armoured vehicles and ships. The Company is a large manufacturer and employer of engineers and invests nearly £80M every year in apprentice and graduate training and employee development as well as liaising with schools and universities.

Shell is applying leading technology and a creative mind-set to help speed up the global shift to cleaner, more energy-efficient road transport. Explore the Shell stand to find out how we are doing this through the development of smarter products, smarter ways of using them and smarter infrastructure.

Siemens is a global engineering company, employing 12,000 people in the UK and a proud lead sponsor of The Big Bang Fair. Together, we can nurture a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths in our youngest minds to help tackle some of the world’s toughest questions confronting the key sectors of Industry, Energy and the environment, Cities and Healthcare.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is the UK’s largest Automotive employer and manufacturer, built around two iconic British car brands, with a wonderfully rich heritage and incredibly powerful consumer appeal and loyalty. As the UK’s largest investor in automotive R&D and engineering, committing over £1.5 billion a year to product creation, JLR is at the centre of the UK automotive industry’s drive to deliver technical innovation in all areas of vehicle development.

Major Sponsors

Rolls-Royce is a global business providing integrated power systems for use on land, at sea and in the air. Visit our exhibition stand to meet Rolls-Royce Graduate Trainees, Apprentices and STEM Ambassadors who will help you to take a journey through a jet engine, talk you through our education outreach activities including the Rolls-Royce Science Prize, and tell you all about the career opportunities that we offer across the UK.

Corporate Sponsors

Balfour Beatty is a world-class infrastructure services business operating across the infrastructure lifecycle, with leading positions in major markets. In over 80 countries, in diverse markets and economies, we provide the assets societies need to function, develop and thrive.

British Gas invests over £25 million each year in the training and development of engineers, smart meter installers, insulation fitters, solar panel installers and energy experts at our awardwinning Academies and we are the largest single trainer and employer of domestic gas engineers in Britain, last year we introduced Information Systems apprenticeships.

As one of the world’s leading engineering companies, we help our customers to use electrical power effectively and to increase industrial productivity in a sustainable way. On our stand we’ll have an augmented reality experience, a working robot and a demonstration of a simple energysaving device.

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer whose customer focus, commercial know-how, technological leadership and manufacturing efficiency have propelled it to the forefront of the industry. Airbus is a global company with design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, UK, and Spain as well as subsidiaries in the U.S, China, Japan and the Middle East. Airbus is an EADS company.

With locations in 160 different countries, around 40,000 employees and a turnover in excess of $18B (around £12B UKpds), Cummins Inc. is a dynamic, global organisation who are leaders in the field of diesel engine, power generation and emissions solutions markets. Its business strategy utilises a ‘hire-to-develop’ approach which targets students and graduates, provides them with exciting, flexible and fulfilling careers to deliver new products and develop new market places on a global basis

Our business is energy. But more than that, it’s about the future of energy. That’s the challenge we’re taking on in the next few years. In addition to nuclear, we have wind farms and other power plants in our diverse generation portfolio. In other words, we’re well placed to lead the industry towards a low carbon future. The Big Bang Fair – Birmingham 2012

At E.ON we’re committed to making cleaner, better energy and delivering sustainable, low carbon power for our customers and safeguarding the environment and communities in which we work. We need the scientists and engineers of tomorrow to create innovative solutions to today’s challenges. Visit the E.ON stand to see if that could be you!

Frazer-Nash Consultancy provides solutions to complex engineering problems across a number of different markets. Visit our stand in the Energise Zone to race a car around our track, you’ll need to select the right mix of energy sources to get the car to the finish line in the fastest time!

As the Laboratory Official Laboratory Services Official Services Provider Provider for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games GSK invite you to visit the GSK Scientists in Sport stand. Come meet some of our GB Olympic and Paralympic athletes and let us take you through the journey of a urine sample from athlete to laboratory analysis and delivering the end result. As well as finding out about how GSK is contributing towards the Games you can have a go at some anti-doping experiments yourself and learn more about the science behind anti-doping.

Goodrich is a leading global supplier of aerospace systems and services. If there’s an aircraft in the sky - we’re on it. Our technology is involved in making aircraft fly, helping them land and keeping them safe. With annual revenues of over $8 billion, Goodrich employs more than 27,000 people across 19 countries.

General Dynamics UK is a world-leader in the integration of cutting-edge defence and security systems to military, government and civil customers worldwide. We develop, deliver and integrate the world’s most advanced tactical communications systems. We are also leading the design of the next generation of armoured fighting vehicles that will protect our soldiers for the next 30 years. In addition, we provide security and resilience solutions to protect some of the most important critical national infrastructure around the world.

Heathrow Airport is proud to be the busiest International airport in the world. Situated West of London it handles over 65 million passengers per year, with 89 airlines serving 176 destinations. There are 76,500 people employed at Heathrow in a vast range of careers including construction and Engineering.

The IBM stand will feature a series of simple, low tech and very ‘hands on’, activities based on it’s award winning TryScience website (www.tryscience.org), including the wildly popular ice cream making activity, which are targeted at 9 - 14 year olds, The stand will also feature IBM careers information and a competition.

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JCB is the world’s third largest construction equipment brand with plants on four continents: 11 in the UK with others in India, USA, Brazil, China and Germany. We employ more than 7,000 people and have won more than 50 major awards, including 25 Queen’s Awards for Technology and Export Achievement.

Lockheed Martin UK, part of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a leader in systems integration, working on major programmes spanning the aerospace, defence and civil sectors. With more than 100 business partners and over 1,500 people at sites across the UK, we draw on technologies and capabilities across the corporation to deliver high technology products and services.

Helping our customers achieve their business objectives through acquiring the assets that make a real difference to the performance of their businesses is something we’re proud of. Lombard provides flexible funding for a vast range of assets from plant & machinery through to IT equipment, cars and commercial vehicles. Security may be required and product fees may apply.

National Grid is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society – the creation of new sustainable energy solutions for the future. In Britain and North East US, our gas and electricity systems deliver energy to millions of people and thousands of businesses, underpinning our way of life today and throughout the 21st century.

We have sites at Sellafield in Cumbria and Capenhurst in Cheshire as well as an extensive engineering design capability based at Risley in Warrington. Pearson is the world’s leading education company, providing qualifications, resources, technologies and related services to teachers and students of all ages. Over the past 25 years, our BTECs have engaged and inspired millions of learners to develop the skills they need to get on in life and succeed.

Owned by the Saudi Arabian Government, Saudi Aramco is a fully-integrated, global petroleum enterprise. The Company manages proven conventional reserves of 260.1 billion barrels of oil and the fourth-largest gas reserves in the world, 279 trillion cubic feet. For more information, go to www.saudiaramco.com.

SELEX Galileo designs, develops, produces and integrates advanced systems with applications in the space, air, land, and sea domains to support civil and military capabilities. We are a truly global business with over 7000 employees operating from more than 21 sites worldwide. SELEX Galileo is proud to support educational initiatives to develop great minds of the future and is committed to identifying, developing and demonstrating new and innovative ideas and technologies.

Sellafield Ltd is responsible for safely delivering plant decommissioning, reprocessing spent fuel, nuclear waste management and fuel manufacturing activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Key Supporters

Thales UK has an 8,000 strong team based across 30 locations, serving markets as diverse as aerospace, defence, security and transport. Providing systems at the heart of the UK’s military capability, as well as delivering technologies from flight simulation and secure transactions to integrated communications. Globally, there are 68,000 people in 50 countries.

Think Power is an initiative of the National Skills Academy for Power which brings together key UK power companies and training providers, using their experience and knowledge to champion the benefits of working in the power sector. Together they aim to tackle serious industry skills shortages, as the UK faces massive future energy challenges.

URENCO is a nuclear technology group with facilities all over the world. We enrich uranium for use in nuclear power plants using our world-leading centrifuge technology. Nuclear power provides a low carbon and sustainable energy source – come and meet Richie Enrichment, our science ambassador, at The Big Bang Fair to learn how!

With Generous Support from Google Society for General Microbiology Birmingham City University Harpers Adams University Institution of Chemical Engineers Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers L’Oréal Nottingham Trent University British Industrial Truck Association

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Thursday 15 March 2012

9.30 9.45 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 Show Floor Hidden World (Hall 6)

We Are Astronomers

Ideas Factory Stage (Hall 6)

4x4 in Schools Welcome Ceremony

Farm to Fork

Gastronauts Live

(Hall 7)

Auditorium (Hall 8)

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Theatre

Theatre (Gallery Seminar Suite 1 & 2)

Careers (Concourse Hospitality Suite 23)

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 29)

Workshop 7 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 34)

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Careers Networking

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

Robots on Mars

Science Workshop

Animation Nation

Google and the iPod: How Maths Made the Modern World

Hydraulics for Frolics

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

How your body deals with some drugs

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 32)

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 33)

The Bionic Ear Show

Hydraulics for Frolics

Workshop 5

Workshop 6

The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust – Alphabeat Show

Google and the iPod: How Maths Made the Modern World

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust – Alphabeat Show

Animation Nation

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 30)

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 31)

Engineering for Life: From Cradle to Grave

Careers Networking

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Science Junkie – In the Zone

Engineering for Life: From Cradle to Grave

The Bionic Ear Show

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 28)

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Gastronauts Live

Science Junkie – In the Zone

(Concourse Hospitality Suite 21/ 22)

Seminar Suite 3)

Being 747 – Amoeba to Zebra

BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory Live

(Concourse Hospitality Suites 1 & 2)

Theatre (Gallery

Ocean Drifters

Dr Ken – How to save the world in 60 minutes

Sky One’s Brainiac Live!

Theatre

We Are Astronomers

Ocean Drifters

How your body deals with some drugs

Robots on Mars

Alton Towers - Rollercoasters and Relativity

Careers Networking

13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45 15.00 15.15 15.30 15.45 16.00 16.15 16.30 16.45 17.00 17.15 17.30 17.45 18.00 18.15

Future Visions: Siemens Climate Week Debate Dr Ken – How to save the world in 60 minutes Gastronauts Live

We Are Astronomers

Ocean Drifters Being 747 – Amoeba to Zebra

F1 in Schools Awards Ceremony

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory Live

Sky One’s Brainiac Live! The Incomplete Complete Answers to Everything about the Universe

Who wants to be a Superhero?

BAE Systems – Science Ficton or Science Fact? Am I an Ape?

BAE Systems – Science Ficton or Science Fact? Dayglo

Careers Networking

Going Nuclear

How Big is That?

Engineering & Technology Workshop

Biology Workshop

Going Nuclear

How Big is That?

Employability Skills Workshop

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

Employability Skills Workshop

Sources of Careers Information for your Students (Teacher Priority Activity) Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

Change your World

Alton Towers – Design and Technology

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Friday

16 March 2012 9.15 9.30 9.45 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45

13.00

Show Floor Hidden World (Hall 6)

We Are Astronomers

Ideas Factory Stage (Hall 6)

Farm to Fork (Hall 7)

Auditorium (Hall 8)

F1 In Schools Welcome Ceremony

Gastronauts Live

Theatre (Gallery Seminar Suite 1 & 2)

Theatre (Gallery Seminar Suite 3)

Careers (Concourse Hospitality Suite 23)

Workshop 1 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 28) Workshop 2 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 29) Workshop 3 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 30) Workshop 4 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 31) Workshop 5 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 32)

BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory Live Science Junkie: In the Zone

Who wants to be a Superhero?

The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust – Alphabeat Show

Dr Ken: How to Save the world in 60 Minutes Careers Networking

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Gastronauts Live

Science Junkie: In the Zone

(Concourse Hospitality Suites 1 & 2) (Concourse Hospitality Suite 21/ 22)

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Re-think the Future with Ellen MacArthur Being 747 – Amoeba to Zebra

Chemistry Goes Live

BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory Live

Theatre

Re-think the Future with Ellen MacArthur

Ocean Drifters

Dr Ken: How to Save the world in 60 Minutes Careers Networking

Zero Carbon Futures The Maths and Computing Magic Show Games 4 All: Ever Wondered How They Made Angry Birds?

Science Workshop

Zero Carbon Futures The Maths and Computing Magic Show Games 4 All: Ever Wondered How They Made Angry Birds?

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

Change your World

Workshop 6 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 33)

Workshop 7 (Concourse Hospitality Suite 34)

(Gallery Seminar Suite 15)

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Alton Towers – Rollercoasters and Relativity

Careers Networking

13.15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45 15.00 15.15 15.30 15.45 16.00 16.15 16.30 16.45 17.00 17.30 18.00

Future Visions: Siemens Climate Week Debate

Ocean Drifters

Gastronauts Live

We Are Astronomers VEX Robotics Awards Ceremony

Being 747 – Amoeba to Zebra

Chemistry Goes Live

19.30

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day National Awards Ceremony

Sky One’s Brainiac Live!

Red Bull Racing Presentation

Engineering for Life – From Cradle to Grave

BAE Systems – Science Ficton or Science Fact? Am I an Ape? Careers Networking

BAE Systems – Science Ficton or Science Fact? Dayglo

Careers Networking

Engineering & Technology Workshop

The Science Behind the Magic of Harry Potter Spy vs Spy – Maths Code Breaking

DNA Life and Death Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

DNA Life and Death Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop Give DNA a Break – Cancer: Turning Problems into Progress

Give DNA a Break – Cancer: Turning Problems into Progress Robots on Mars

Maths & Physics Workshop

Robots on Mars Alton Towers – Design and Technology

Alton Towers – Design and Technology Space, Science and Inspiration (Teacher Priority Activity)

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Saturday 17 March 2012

9.00 9.30 9.45 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 Show Floor Hidden World (Hall 6)

We Are Astronomers

Ideas Factory Stage

(Hall 7)

Auditorium (Hall 8)

Theatre (Concourse Hospitality Suites 1 & 2)

Theatre (Concourse Hospitality Suite 21 / 22)

Theatre (Gallery Seminar Suite 1 & 2)

Careers (Concourse Hospitality Suite 23)

Workshop (Concourse Hospitality Suite 31)

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Ocean Drifters

Dr Ken: How to Save the world in 60 Minutes

(Hall 6)

Farm to Fork

We Are Astronomers

Ocean Drifters

Being 747: Amoeba to Zebra

How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Gastronauts Live

Sky One’s Brainiac Live!

Protecting UK Air Space – How the RAF Uses the Latest Technology in the Protection of Britain’s Skies

IBM – Teachers TryScience: STEM lessons and Resources for Educators (Teacher Priority Activity)

The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust – Alphabeat Show

Careers Networking

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

Careers Networking

Science Workshop

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

13.00 13:15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45 15.00 15.15 15.30 15.45 16.00 16.15 16.30 16.45 17.00 17.15 18.00

We Are Astronomers

Ocean Drifters

Dr Ken: How to Save the world in 60 Minutes How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Gastronauts Live

We Are Astronomers

F1 In Schools Awards Ceremony

Space – What’s the Point? (Teacher Priority Activity)

BAE Systems – Secret Life of Robots

Careers Networking

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

Being 747: Amoeba to Zebra How to make millions of chocolate bars in a day

Gastronauts Live

BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory Live

Protecting UK Air Space – How the RAF Uses the Latest Technology in the Protection of Britain’s Skies

Ocean Drifters

BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory Live

Protecting UK Air Space – How the RAF Uses the Latest Technology in the Protection of Britain’s Skies The Secret Rules of the World – The Apollo Moon Landings, Conspiracy Theories and Science as a “Candle in the Dark” (Teacher Priority Activity) BAE Systems – Secret Life of Robots Engineering & Technology Workshop

Chemistry Workshop

Rolls-Royce Power Challenge Workshop

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Key to Map 65 Aston University: The Bionic Eye 66 UK Space Agency: Train Like an Astronaut 67 Classroom Medics and NHS: Classroom Casualty 68 Medical Research Council: Medical Research – Changing Lives 69 British Society for Immunology and Society of Microbiology: Disease Detectives 70 British Psychological Society: Origins – Psychological Science 71 L’Oréal – Young Scientist Centre 72 Imperial College London: The Heart of the Matter ** 73 A. Framewellgate School, Durham B. R ipley St Thomas High School * 74 A. Alton College B. Chelmsford County High School for Girls C. Ormiston Victory Academy D. Eckington School E. Foyle and Londonderry College F. The Latymer School 75 Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Trauma Surgery: The Science of the Bleeding Obvious! 76 Birmingham Metropolitan College: Bodies of Evidence * 77 A. Loreto College B. St Mary’s College, Derry C. Hills Road Sixth Form College D. Langside College E. T he Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College ** 78 A. South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy B. Coopers Company and Coborn School C. The Joseph Whitaker School D. Caroline Chisholm School * 79 A. Dollar Academy B. St Mary’s College, Derry C. Bablake School D. John Cleveland College * 80 A. Stoke Newington School B. Barton Peveril College C. The Maelor School D. The Grey Coat Hospital E. Merchant Taylors School, Crosby F. Kingsbury High School * 81 A. Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys B. Loreto College C. Dollar Academy A. St Albans School * 82 B. Formby High School C. Altrincham Grammar School for Girls D. Garth Hill College E. Roundwood Park School 83 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine: Medical Physics and Engineering is good for your Health! 84 Society of Biology: Animals to energy, getting to the heart of the Biology of Sport

* 85 A. The Lady Eleanor Holles School B. The Trinity School C. Peter Symonds College D. Bablake School E. St George’s School F. West Kirby Grammar School * 86 A. Sydenham High School B. Hazlehead Academy C. Easingwold School D. Loreto College E. Cheney School F. Northfield Academy A. Leicester High School for Girls * 87 B. Holy Cross College C. The Blue Coat School D. King Edward VI High School for Girls 88 PSI – Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Clinical Trial Game A. King Edward VI High School for Girls * 89 C. The Tiffin Girls’ School D. Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School and Performing Arts College E. Saffron Walden County High School F. The High School of Glasgow 90 GSK – Scientists in Sport 91 University of Birmingham: Inspiring Young Scientists of the Future 92 Society for General Microbology: The Good, the Bad and the Algae 93 Queen Mary University of London, School of Engineering and Materials Science: Bionic Man * 94 A. Newminster Middle School B. Calday Grange Grammar School C. Watford Grammar School for Girls D. Thomas Telford School A. St Thomas More School * 95 B. Newminster Middle School C. Reed’s School D. Redmoor High School * 96 A. Rugby High School B. Uppingham Community College C. Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni D. Paignton Community College 97 The Physiological Society: Modern Pentathlon Challenge

* National Science & Engineering Competition ** STEM Club Showcase

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Can you help shape the world’s energy future? Come and find out how much energy you can create just by dancing… time to show off those smart moves! Visit our stand in the Energise Zone. Find out how we’re helping to meet the energy challenge at: www.shell.com/innovation

E S I G R ENE Welcome to Energise led by Shell. Learn about the energy challenge facing us all. How can we balance our rising energy demands with the need to conserve resources?

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35 Lancaster University: Science and Technology at Lancaster University 36 Urenco

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National Grid

Institution of Engineering and Technology

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54 A. The Godolphin School B. Rugby High School C. Pershore High School D. King Edward VII Science & Sports College

niversity of Kent, School of Engineering and U Digital Arts:Defeat SPECTRA

55 Exscitec and Imperial College London: How Science Works

A. St David’s Catholic College * 40 B. Cynffig Comprehensive School D. Coundon Court School and Community College 41 British Gas / Centrica * 42 A. Oakham School B. Ysgol Gyfun Llandbedr Pont Steffan C. Balcarras School D. Wade Deacon High School E. Emmanuel College

56 Twig: Careers in Science 57 Sellafield 58 A. Chipping Sodbury School C. Kendrick School D. Liverpool College E. St Colman’s College, Newry 59

EDF Energy

A. St Peter’s Catholic School ** 60 B. Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi

A. Calday Grange Grammar School * 43 B. St David’s Catholic College C. Painsley Catholic College D. Chaucer Technology School

A. Winchester College ** 61 B. Newland House School C. Alcester Academy D. Community College Bishops Castle

44 Queen Mary University of London – School of Physics and Astronomy: Going Nuclear

National Skills Academy for Power

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. Merchant Taylors School A C. King James School D. Nottingham High School E. Coleg Sir Gar F. Great Sankey High School

A. Harrogate High School * 47 B. Amman Valley School D. The Mount School E. Balcarras School F. Wycombe Abbey School 48

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63 A. Sutton Grammar School for Boys B. Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi C. Nottingham High School D. Heaton Manor School E. Jack Hunt School F. Bablake School 64 University of Surrey and University College London: Schrodinger’s Cat in a Silicon Chip * National Science & Engineering Competition ** S TEM Club Showcase

F razer-Nash Consultancy: Energy Race Challenge

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Meet us in the Go Global Zone

Grant dares to ask He uses science and maths to help answer the world’s toughest questions.

To start a career in Business, Finance or Engineering you’ll need a passion for science, technology and maths. At Siemens we develop those qualities to help turn ideas into reality. We

produce innovations year after year to help tackle some of the world’s toughest questions confronting the key sectors of Industry, Energy, Cities and Healthcare.

www.siemens.co.uk/careers

L A B O L GO G Welcome to Go Global led by Siemens. Explore some of the major challenges facing our global village and the ways in which clever thinking solves them.

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A. The King’s School * 1 B. Gower College C. Bedford School E. Oakham School 2 The Royal Navy * 3 A. Nottingham High School for Boys B. Torquay Boys’ Grammar School C. Sutton Grammar School for Boys E. The Thomas Adams School F. T he Perse School 4 Young Enterprise 5 Wildscreen: ARKive’s Web of Wildlife 6 Institution of Civil Engineers: Tallest ICE Tower 7 D esign & Technology Association, Mindsets and the James Dyson Foundation: Design & Technology 8 Arcola Energy Playground A. St Augustines RC Secondary School * 9 B. Balcarras School C. King James School D. Braunton School E. Stamford School F. Merchiston Castle School 10

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* 13 A. Emmanuel College B. Ysgol Uwchradd Glan Clwyd C. Home educated D. Sutton Grammar School for Boys 14

I nstitute of Ergonomics and Human Factors: Well old is well ‘ard – Designing for our ageing society

T he Smallpeice Trust and The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB)

FIRST® LEGO® Education

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niversity of Leicester: Rotting fish and U fossils: Resolving the riddle of our earliest vertebrate ancestor

* 22 A. Wade Deacon High School B. Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi D. Down High School E. Thomas Mills High School F. Grosvenor Grammar School 23

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BITA Academy – City of Bristol College

* 25 A. Glenmoor School B. Harlaw Academy C. Maltby Academy D. Emmanuel College ** 26 A. NEW Academy B. Cardinal Newman Catholic School C. St. Bede’s Catholic Comprehensive School D. Little Ilford School 27

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SELEX Galileo

* 29 A. Tapton School B. George Heriot’s School C. Duchess’s Community High School D. Glenmoor School * 30 A. Ballard School B. The Ursuline Academy, Ilford C. Sandbach High School and SFC D. Sacred Heart RC School 31

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oyal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI): R Lifeboat Lab

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We run one of the largest engineering apprenticeship schemes in the UK helping people develop a range of skills from sheet metalworking to design engineering. As part of their three-year course, our apprentices also get to work on some of the country’s most exciting engineering projects like the Astute submarine programme and the Typhoon combat aircraft. It’s this dedication that led OFSTED to award us a Grade 1 for our apprentice training programme.

WE ARE TRAINING MORE THAN 1,000 APPRENTICES AT ANY ONE TIME.

REAL PRIDE. REAL ADVANTAGE.

T X E N E TH R O T C FA Welcome to The Next Factor led by BAE Systems. Our future is shaped by innovation and research. Discover how tomorrow’s world is being made today.

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* 117 A. Reed’s School B. St Mary’s College, Derry C. Parkside Community College E. Ballard School F. The High School of Glasgow 118

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* 119 A. Uffculme School B. Rainham Mark Grammar School C. Newminster Middle School * 120 A. Calday Grange Grammar School B. Ilford County High School C. Wreake Valley Community College D. Loreto College E. Wallace High School F. De Lisle Catholic Science College * 121 A. Norwich School B. Wirral Grammar School for Boys C. Bablake School D. Bablake School E. Fortrose Academy F. Kirkbie Kendal School * 122 A. Stockport Grammar School B. Stockport Grammar School C. Cheney School D. The Queen Katherine School

108 UK Space Agency: Exploring the Universe

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* 110 A. Montsaye Community College B. St Peter’s Catholic Comprehensive School C. King Edward VI Aston School E. Bablake School F. St. Mary’s College, Crosby

125 Birmingham City University, School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks

111 Institute of Physics: Visualising the Invisible

127 Aston Pharmacy School: Stress and Strain can MAKE YOU THIN (only if you’re a shear thinning fluid!)

112 Cockcroft Institute: Particle Accelerator Technology: From the LHC to Cancer Therapy 113 Herschel Space Observatory: A New Window on the Universe * 114 A. Calday Grange Grammar School B. Maiden Beech School C. Stretford Grammar School D. St Mary’s College, Derry 115

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128 Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance * National Science & Engineering Competition ** S TEM Club Showcase

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ULTIMATEDESTINATION

Creating new products. Exciting new careers. GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES Fuelled by global desirability and unparalleled ambition, Jaguar Land Rover is painting an impressive picture of success. We’re growing around the world – broadening our horizons and as a result creating all kinds of exciting graduate career opportunities in everything from Product Development Engineering, Finance, Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, IT, HR and Marketing, Sales & Service. If you work here, you’ll play a real part in driving forward a global business. Your ideas will go further. Your projects will be bigger. You will be involved in decisions affecting our brands and your contribution will make an impression in over 160 countries. And you thought it was only our vehicles that were exciting. For the full picture, visit

www.jaguarlandrovercareers.com

G N I K MA TRA X Welcome to Making Trax led by Jaguar Land Rover. A world of imaginative and creative engineering embracing speed, robotics and future transport.

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Bang Goes the Theory LIVE In the past three years, over a quarter of a million people have put science and technology to the test at BBC Oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bang Goes the Theory LIVE. Following this success, Bang is back in 2012 and promises to be bigger and better than ever! Join the presenters for a brand new, action-packed show as they bring the TV series to life and test, stretch and explode science live on stage. Then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your turn to get experimenting in the Bang Goes the Theory LIVE Interactive Area. Pick up some science tricks to impress friends as our science buskers demonstrate the best of street science, and get hands-on with our interactive exhibits.

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F A. X plus Why? Factor B. Educational Resources Zone C. Careers Hub D. National Science & Engineering Week E. The Big Bang Near Me F. Bloodhound

Questions on Careers We want everyone who comes to The Big Bang Fair to understand just what scientists, engineers and mathematicians actually do – and how they could follow in their footsteps. We provide a series of activities designed to highlight career opportunities and routes to those careers. Find out more about how you can get involved below.

Find Careers Hub Here!

Whose Crew Are You? Are you excited by what you see and want to know more or are you finding it hard to see how science and maths are used in the workplace today? Visit the Careers Hub, just inside the main entrance, and take our simple test to find out which crew suits you. Print out your personal résumé, which includes suggestions of jobs in your crew and activities on the show floor that demonstrate your crew in action.

Visit the Careers Hub Questions about careers in science, technology, engineering and maths? Speak to one of our advisers at the Careers Hub who will be happy to answer all your careers questions and provide printed information for you to take home.

Look out for our Careers Champions Want to find out more about where scientists and engineers work? Look out for our Careers Champions. They are wearing blue careers armbands and can be found all over the show floor and on the Careers Hub.

Information about careers in science, technology, engineering and maths? Go to our website www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/careers for lots more careers information and links to organisations that can help you further.

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Join us at The Ideas Factory

where Ideas come To

lIFe ! explore the wonderful world of maths and science through the eyes of dr Ken

or rock along with amoeba to

Zebra. Booking is not required and everyone is welcome.

Sponsored by

The X Plus Why? Factor Activities include

Come along to the X Plus Why? Factor and discover the world of maths! For more information on all of these activities, and further educational resource links, please see our educational resources pack, downloadable from the teachers page of The Big Bang Fair website: www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/teachers.cfm

• Aerofoil • Curious Mathematical Objects • Foam Cubes Competition • FunMaths Roadshow • Glaton Board • Harmonograph • It’s Only a Gameshow • Learning Maths Through Robots • Living in a Complex World • Maths Beyond the Classroom • The Double Pendulum • The Energy of Bubble Films • The Mathematics of Card Tricks

Find the X plus Why? Factor & Educational Resources Here!

Educational Resources Zone

• Travelling Salesman

Visit our Educational Resources Zone, have a coffee and discover a range of STEM resources. Exhibitors in this zone include: • National STEM Centre • Intellectual Property Office • Pearson • Open University For more resources relating to all of the exhibitors at The Big Bang Fair, please take a look at our Educational Resources pack which you can download here: www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/resources.cfm and also at our collection in the National STEM Centre e-library: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/collection/494/ big-bang-collection

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Shell education Service Family Science Shell Education Service delivers fun, interactive science activities for all the family, aimed at children between 4 and 12 years. Activities focus on the Science Enquiry strand of the National Curriculum, teaching visitors a range of skills including observation, controlling variables and repeating tests. On the day families can take part in many exciting activities. These include making balloon buggies to see which one goes furthest; using chromatography to find out which pigments are in felt pens; thaumatropes to explore moving pictures; jumping beans to learn about friction and gravity, as well as hoopsters to see how far they can fly. There is also a team activity where families work together to make the tallest tower. Come along to the stand and have fun trying out these activities, you can also take away aspects of the day to continue the fun at home.

We look forward to welcoming you on Saturday 17 march. www.shell.co.uk/ses

National Science & Engineering Competition

The National Awards Ceremony 2011. Left to right: Kate Bellingham, Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cowan (Young Engineer of the Year 2011), Hannah Eastwood (Young Scientist of the Year 2011) and Sir John Beddington

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National Science & Engineering Competition The National Science & Engineering Competition is an initiative of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as a response to a recommendation in Lord Sainsbury’s report ‘The Race to the Top’. It is coordinated by the British Science Association in partnership with Young Engineers and The Big Bang. The Competition, open to all 11-18 year olds, accepts projects from all areas of science, technology, engineering and maths. The finals of the National Science & Engineering Competition are held at The Big Bang. For more information including a list of all the prizes and a full list of sponsors go to www.nationalsciencecompetition.org

Core prizes

Junior 11-14 yrs

Intermediate 15-16 yrs

Senior 17-18 yrs

Or make a note in your diary to enter online: www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/nsec/the_competition/ how_to_enter.cfm

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is making a difference by supporting sustained growth and higher skills across the economy. BIS: working together for growth. www.bis.gov.uk.

Sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills We will award prizes for up to 6 winners, 6 runners-up and 18 highly commended projects (teams and individuals are not separated), divided by stream and age category, as shown below:

Science/Maths

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Young Scientist(s) of the Year 1 runner-up 3 Highly Commended

Young Engineer(s) of the Year 1 runner-up 3 Highly Commended

Junior Category prizes: • Winners: £1000, a trophy and a certificate • Runners-up: £300, a silver medal and a certificate • Highly commended: £100, a bronze medal and a certificate Intermediate Category prizes: • Winners: £1500, a trophy and a certificate • Runners-up: £500, a silver medal and a certificate • Highly commended: £125, a bronze medal and a certificate 48 The Big Bang Fair – Birmingham 2012

To find out how you can compete next year, find your nearest Big Bang Fair on our website: www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/nearme

Senior Category prizes: • Winners: title “UK Young Scientist(s) of the Year” or “UK Young Engineer(s) of the Year” as appropriate, £2000, a trophy, a certificate and an experience prize. • Runners-up: £700, a silver medal and a certificate • Highly commended: £150, a bronze medal and a certificate All awards will be at the judges’ discretion. In categories with fewer entries, the judges have the right to award fewer than the maximum number of prizes.

Disciplinary prizes

The Royal Academy of Engineering Founded in 1976, The Royal Academy of Engineering promotes the engineering and technological welfare of the country. Our fellowship – comprising the UK’s most eminent engineers – provides the leadership and expertise for our activities, which focus on the relationships between engineering, technology, and the quality of life. As a national academy, we provide independent and impartial advice to Government; work to secure the next generation of engineers; and provide a voice for Britain’s engineering community. www.raeng.org.uk/education The Royal Academy of Engineering Prize This prize will be awarded to the one individual or team in any age category deemed to have presented the best engineering project at The Big Bang. The winner(s) will receive £500, a certificate and an invitation to meet some of the UK’s leading engineers via a visit to a cutting edge engineering, business or research centre.

The Goldsmiths’ Company The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is one of the Great XII Livery Companies of the City of London and received its first royal charter in 1327. The Company sponsors a number of educational initiatives, and has a particular interest in the promotion of science learning to both students and teachers. The Prize for Chemistry, presented by the Goldsmiths’ Company This prize will be awarded to the individual or team in any age category deemed by the judges to have presented the best chemistry project. The winner(s) will receive £500, a certificate, and an exciting chemistry-related experience.

Google Google believes in ground-breaking projects and innovative technology. Our teams work on a huge range of products: as well as the continually evolving search engine that we are most known for, we also work on products such as Gmail and Calendar, Chrome, YouTube, Maps, Earth... the list is endless. Our STEM educations have given us creative, exciting and rewarding opportunities. That’s why we’re so enthusiastic about supporting it for all students. www.google.com/edu Google Trailblazer Prize Google will award two prizes for the best computer science projects of 2012. As well as receiving £500 and a certificate,

each of the two lucky winners (plus a guardian if necessary) will have the opportunity to spend two days at one of the Google research sites in Europe (The choice of sites will be determined by the students’ interests) where they will be able to take part in tours, workshops and get involved in some hands-on work!

The Society of Biology The Society of Biology is a single unified voice for biology: advising Government and influencing policy; advancing education and professional development; supporting our members, and engaging and encouraging public interest in the life sciences. The Society of Biology is committed to promoting biology as a subject of choice to students in schools, colleges and universities. We support and recognise excellence in biology teaching; champion a biology curriculum that challenges students and encourages their passion for biology; support young scientists through higher education, and provide career guidance at all levels. www.societyofbiology.org The Society of Biology Prize This prize will be offered to the team or individual that has produced the best project in the biological sciences. The winner(s) will receive £500, a certificate, one year’s free membership to the Society of Biology and an invitation to visit one of the UK’s leading biological research centres and meet cutting edge researchers based there.

Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over 40,000 and is a leading communicator of physics-related science to all audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics. www.iop.org/education The Institute of Physics Prize for Physics This prize will be offered to the one team or individual that has produced the best physics project. As well as receiving £500 and a certificate, the winner will be invited to one of the UK’s leading physics research sites where they will meet professional scientists and receive a tour of the facilities.

Research Councils UK Research Councils UK (RCUK) is the strategic partnership between the seven UK Research Councils. Each year the Research Councils invest around £3 billion in research covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines. The Big Bang Fair – Birmingham 2012 49

Working to the second strand of our strategy which is ‘for young people to pursue research careers’, RCUK has a number of schemes and resources that can bring exciting and contemporary research into your classroom. www.rcuk.ac.uk/per Research Councils UK Prize for the Best Use of Research This prize will be awarded to the team or individual in the senior age category who has most impressed the judges with the excellence of their research techniques and best use of research. The winner will receive £500, a certificate and an experience prize, which will be a behind-the-scenes visit to one of Research Council UK’s prestigious research laboratories. Research Councils UK (RCUK) will also invite the winners of the UK Young Scientist of the Year 2012 and UK Young Engineer of the Year 2012 to visit one of their prestigious research laboratories.

E.ON UK E.ON UK is one of the UK’s leading power and gas suppliers. It generates electricity for the UK’s homes and businesses, retails power and gas to millions of people across the country and is part of the E.ON Group, the world’s largest investorowned power and gas company. E.ON UK offers a range of resources to primary and secondary schools, designed to help pupils learn about energy and about the wide range of careers available in the energy sector. www.eon-uk.com E.ON UK Prize for Best use of Maths 2012 Tony Cocker, CEO E.ON UK, will present this prize to the project that shows the most advanced use of mathematics. As well as receiving £500 and a certificate, the winner will be invited to meet some of the mathematicians that work for E.ON right across their business from generating energy to selling it to customers.

Selection for International events

Intel Intel® believes young people are key to solving global challenges. A solid maths and science foundation coupled with skills such as critical thinking, collaboration and problemsolving are crucial for their success. We partner with many UK organisations in education programs, advocacy and technology access to enable tomorrow’s innovators.” Intel International Science & Engineering Fair Up to four projects will be selected to attend the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. Each year this prestigious event gathers the world’s most creative, intelligent and resourceful high school students from over 50 countries, to compete for more than $3 million in awards and scholarships. The 2012 fair, to be held in Pittsburgh in America in May 2012, will assemble more than 1,600 finalists, Nobel Laureates, leading scientists and researchers along with 1,200 judges and potential future employers, for the world’s largest pre-university science fair. 50 The Big Bang Fair – Birmingham 2012

Nuffield Foundation The Nuffield Foundation is a charitable trust working to improve social well-being through education, research and innovation. Every year, our Science Bursaries provide over 1,000 post-16 students with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of a STEM working environment during a summer vacation placement. We also develop curriculum projects and resources in science and maths, and run research programmes designed to improve education policy and practice, from early years to higher education. More information is available at: www.nuffieldfoundation.org European Union Contest for Young Scientists Places – places supported by the Nuffield Foundation This prize allows up to three individuals from the Senior and Intermediate age categories of the National Science & Engineering Competition to attend this leading European science fair representing the UK. The 24rd European Union Contest for Young Scientists will be held in Bratislava this September and includes a full programme of judging, showcasing, cultural trips and social activities that the winners will remember for a lifetime. This prize is supported within the UK by the Nuffield Foundation.

London International Youth Science Forum Founded in 1959, LIYSF aims to give a deeper insight into science and its applications for the benefit of all mankind and to develop a greater understanding between young people of all nations. London International Youth Science Forum Places supported by LIYSF Two Senior category students will be chosen to attend the prestigious London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF). An annual two-week residential event, LIYSF will bring together students from across the world to explore the underlying theme of The Human Planet. LIYSF is held at Imperial College London, with lectures and demonstrations from leading scientists, visits to industrial sites, research centres, scientific institutions and organisations, including world class laboratories and universities. For more details about LIYSF please see: www.liysf.org.uk

Saudi Aramco Owned by the Saudi Arabian Government, Saudi Aramco is a fully-integrated, global petroleum enterprise. The Company manages 260.1 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and the fourth-largest gas reserves in the world, 279 trillion cubic feet. As a premier developer and user of technology, Saudi Aramco is dedicated to collaboration to ensure that global energy needs are met for generations to come. For more information, go to www.saudiaramco.com

Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar – Place supported by Saudi Aramco One Senior category finalist will be chosen to attend this very select, invite-only event in Stockholm. Taking place in December 2012 the generous sponsorship from Saudi Aramco allows the student to attend this prestigious event featuring talks from Nobel Prize winners, and visits to research institutions of world renown. They also have the opportunity to meet and befriend other like-minded students from all over the world creating new and exciting international links.

CREST Awards

Special prizes Sponsored by:

The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Teacher Award Also supported by Twig This prize is open to any UK teacher who teaches or supports Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) lessons in and out of school at primary or secondary level. The winner will win £500, a certificate and a trophy and an invitation to an experience prize trip. In addition, Twig will provide a year’s free subscription to their high quality online resources. In January, Twig Science won the BETT Award 2012 for the best Secondary Digital Content resource.

Young Engineers Awards Young Engineers is delighted to be able to make a number of major awards at the 2012 Big Bang fair, these include: • The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Young Engineers Club of the Year • The Young Engineers ISEF Awards (x2), one sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers • The Duke of York’s Awards for ‘The most creative use of technology’ • The Young Engineers Awards for engineering excellence

The British Science Association’s CREST Awards is the UK’s largest national award scheme for project work in the STEM subjects. For over 25 years it has given 11 to 19-year-olds opportunities to link personal passions with curriculum-based studies. CREST is the only STEM scheme endorsed by UCAS for inclusion in students’ personal statements. The scheme is very flexible, with projects being worked on in-class, during work experience placements, through after-schools clubs, or even in students’ spare time. Numerous other schemes link to CREST emphasising it is a great way of recognising good practice in project work. www.britishscienceassociation.org/crest

In addition, Young Engineers will be making a number of additional awards for engineering endeavour and club work which will be presented over the course of The Big Bang Fair. The Department for Education supports the CREST Expansion Programme in England.

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Prize for Design The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 offers major awards to scientists and engineers for research, development and design. Its aims are to support education for the benefit of productive industry. First established to stage the Great Exhibition in 1851, the Royal Commission’s extraordinary history is founded on an inspired vision of the importance of education to economic success. The Big Bang Fair – Birmingham 2012

CREST Prize for Creativity This prize is offered to the team or individual at either Gold, Silver or Bronze level which has impressed the judges most by showing their great creativity in project process, presentation or outcome or a combination of these. The winning project will receive £500, a certificate and a trophy. There is also a bursary that can be awarded to the school or college linked with the project to help support the continuation of CREST project work.

CREST Prize for Enthusiasm and Understanding of Real World Context This prize is offered to a team or individual at either Gold, Silver or Bronze level who has impressed the judges most by showing clear passion and enthusiasm for STEM enquiry, whilst clearly demonstrating how their project fits into wider research or the real world context. The winning project will receive £500, a certificate and a trophy. There is also a bursary that can be awarded to the school or college linked with the project to help support the continuation of CREST project work.

People’s Choice Award New for 2012, this prize is offered to the Competition Project or STEM Club that has been voted by the attendees of The Fair as their favourite for engagement, understanding of subject matter and presentation display. The winning project will receive a visit to a UK SEA LIFE Centre or Sanctuary*. One lucky person who votes for the winning project or club will win an iPad! (*Terms and Conditions apply.) The National Science & Engineering Competition is coordinated by the British Science Association in partnership with Young Engineers and the Big Bang Education CIC.

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British Science Association The British Science Association is the UK’s nationwide, open membership organisation that exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. Established in 1831, the British Science Association organises major initiatives across the UK, including National Science and Engineering Week, the annual British Science Festival, programmes of regional and local events, and an extensive programme for young people in schools and colleges. The Association also organises specific activities for the science communication community in the UK through its Science in Society programme and has been involved in The Big Bang since its inception. For more information, please visit www.britishscienceassociation.org

Young Engineers Young Engineers is a major national educational charity that supports a substantial network of after school clubs, runs a range of practical competitions and provides in school STEM Challenge Days. It also plays a significant role in recognising student achievement and celebrating success whether by individual project or club success. For many years, Young Engineers has identified and encouraged the best engineering students in the country to conceive, design and manufacture their projects and many projects have gone on to achieve commercial success. Students often regard participation in Young Engineers activities as a ‘life changing’ experience and include involvement in our activities in their UCAS application, in their CVs and biographies. Young Engineers has been associated with the Big Bang Fair since its inception in 2008 and is also a partner in the Tomorrow’s Engineers Scheme led by the Royal Academy of Engineering and EngineeringUK. www.youngeng.org

Index A ABB Sponsor, Go Global 19 ActionDog CIC FlavourSense Nation Activty, Farm 2 Fork 143 Airbus Sponsor, Go Global 11 Alcester Academy Blown Away – Capturing the power of the wind STEM Club, Energise 61C Alton College A Study of the Cytoskeleton of Malignant Cancer Cells; Rachel Anderson Competition, Body Talk 74A Altrincham Grammar School for Girls Does Plasma Membrane Calcium ATPase isoform 4 have a physiological or pathological role in hypertrophy?; Hannah Roomi Competition, Body Talk 82C Amman Valley School The Secret Garden (Fantasy and Fiction Textiles); Stephanie Spowart Competition, Energise 47B

Bablake School Substituting the aqueous immersion gold process with ionic liquids; Anuriti Aojula Competition, The Next Factor 121D Bablake School Testing and Developing Indigestion Remedies Aaran Patel, Marcus Judge, Marco Ciao, Jacob Williams Competition, Body Talk 79C Bablake School The role of electrical activity in the nervous system during embryonic development in zebrafish; Helen Porter Competition, Body Talk 85D Bablake School Vector Spaces and Root Systems; Beth Evans Competition, The Next Factor 110E BAE Systems Sponsor, The Next Factor 103 Balcarras School ‘Good Vibrations’; Katie Barnes Competition, Energise 42C Balcarras School The Flexible Heating System; Jonathan Connolly Competition, Go Global 9B Balcarras School The Tyre Chair; Emma Garlick Competition, Energise 47E

Arcola Energy Playground Activity, Go Global 8

Balfour Beatty Sponsor, The Next Factor 118

Aston Pharmacy School Stress and Strain can MAKE YOU THIN (only if you’re a shear thinning fluid!) Activity, The Next Factor 127

Ballard School Club Activities: Indoor Flying, Air Rockets, Greenpower, Primary Engineer, K’nex, Gravity Racer, Robotics/Control, Boat Building; Ballard Creative Engineers STEM Club, Energise 49B

Aston University The Bionic Eye Activity, Body Talk 65 Astrium Bridget – the ExoMars Rover Demonstrator Activity, The Next Factor 123 Aylesbury Grammar School We Went Ballistic!; George Mawdsley, Jonny Evans, James Sterry, Oliver Sampson, Ross Buchanan Competition, The Next Factor 105B

B BAA Heathrow Sponsor, Go Global 23 Bablake School Development of thermoplastics based on starch; Smriti Aojula Competition, The Next Factor 121C Bablake School From Ear to Ear; Jonathan Wellings Competition, Energise 63F Bablake school Searching for binary system white dwarfs and calculating their orbital period; Kurt Ibberson Competition, The Next Factor 104B

Ballard School Garbine-Wind Powered Generator Project; Adam Reeves, Mark Reeves Competition, Go Global 30A Ballard School Science of Computer Games; Lucy Taylor Competition, The Next Factor 117E Barton Peveril College Transmembrane ion transporters: A treatment for common diseases?; Jieyuan Fan Competition, Body Talk 80B Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Trauma Surgery: The Science of the Bleeding Obvious! Activity, Body Talk 75 BBC Zone, BBC 134 Bedford School Porte Defence; Benjamin Armstrong Competition, Go Global 1C Big Bang Education The Big Bang Programme Activity, Entry E

Birmingham Metropolitan College Bodies of Evidence Activity, Body Talk 76 Bloodhound Car Activity, Entry F Braunton School Quad bike lifting device; Chris Bonds Competition, Go Global 9D BITA Academy – City of Bristol College Sponsor, Go Global 24 British Gas / Centrica Sponsor, Energise 41 British Psychological Society Origins: Psychological Science Activity, Body Talk 70 British Society for Immunology and Society of Microbiology; Disease Detectives Activity, Body Talk 69

C Calday Grange Grammar School Cereal Symbioses – Maize roots and Bacteria; Tim Gordon Competition, The Next Factor 120A Calday Grange Grammar School Recycled Paper for a Building Material Lawrence, Quirk, Calum Smith, Matthew Hale Competition, The Next Factor 114A Calday Grange Grammar School The Eco-Spin; Samuel Mills, Gokhul Raj, Daniel Wheller, Cameron Douglas, Asher Winterson Competition, Energise 43A Calday Grange Grammar School What Makes A Good Toothpaste?; Joseph McCrave, Jacob Swan, Daniel Ibrahim, Jack Haworth Competition, Body Talk 94B Cardinal Newman Catholic School Planetary Exploration: Mission to Mars! STEM Club, Go Global 26B Careers Hub Zone, Entry C Caroline Chisholm School STEM Inspiration – Engineering and Robotics Young Engineers STEM Club, Body Talk 78D Chaucer Technology School Reducing CO2 in school by 10% Philip Clark, Libbie Norton, Chantelle Martin, Daniel Keen Competition, Energise 43D Chelmsford County High School for Girls Discovery of the Function of Cytoglobin Deborah Asante Competition, Body Talk 74B Cheney School An investigation of the market leading OTC (over the counter) and in-house manufactured pain relievers; Chandni Patel Competition, Body Talk 86E

Birmingham City University, School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks Sponsor, The Next Factor 125

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Cheney School Cancer (Imaging, Radiotherapy & Epigenetics): The True Nature Of Cancer; Adam Parkes Bowen, Amaad Hussein, Johnny Odu Competition, The Next Factor 122C Chester Catholic High School STEM Club, The Next Factor 98B Chipping Sodbury School iPod Eco-Charger; James Theophilus Competition, Energise 58A Classroom Medics and NHS Classroom Casualty Activity, Body Talk 67 Cockcroft Institute Particle Accelerator Technology: From the LHC to Cancer Therapy Activity, The Next Factor 112

Double Negative Visual Effects Making Movie Magic Activity, The Next Factor 107 Down High School Keycall; John Neill Competition, Go Global 22D Duchess’s Community High School Energy and our School – Fossil vs Biofuels: the Pollution Solution; Aidan Reed, Simon Smith, Catherine Walker, Robert Mewett, Sarah Wilkes Competition, Go Global 29C

E E.ON Sponsor, Energise 34

Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls Nelly Floats; The Water Design Challenge Club STEM Club, The Next Factor 98D Fortrose Academy Optimising the materials selection of a diabetes monitor; Jonathan Richardson Competition, The Next Factor 121E Foyle and Londonderry College Photodynamic Therapy as an Antibiotic; David Cochrane Competition, Body Talk 74E Framwellgate School Durham Science Buskers STEM Club; Body Talk 73A

Easingwold School How to distinguish between child abuse and osteogenesis imperfecta; Emily Dowling Competition, Body Talk 86C

Frazer-Nash Consultancy Sponsor, Energise 48

Eckington School Extension of the central hydrophobic domain of the Oleosin protein; Harriet Buckley Competition, Body Talk 74D

Garth Hill College Ground level ozone: Will our grasslands survive?; Emily Smith Competition, Body Talk 82D

EDF Energy Sponsor, Energise 59

Gastronaut Live! & Nestle Chocolate Theatre Show, Farm 2 Fork 137

Educational Resources Zone Zone, Entry B

General Dynamics Sponsor, Go Global 17

Coopers Company and Coborn School Floral Fun, Happy Herbs and Satisfied Seeds!; Science Club STEM Club, Body Talk 78B

Emmanuel College Bounce It; Sophie Farrell, Rachel Hammerton, Kara Ferguson, Callie Ferguson Competition, Go Global 25D

Coundon Court School and Community College; Stuck in a Jig; Becky Wolf, Libby Curteiroz, Michael Constantine, Roxanne Townsend Competition, Energise 40D

Emmanuel College Deaf Alarm; Sarah Latimer, Sarah James, Daniel Huddart Competition, Go Global 13A

George Heriot’s School Primary Power Up; Silas Gibbins, Daniel Gilmore, Rachel Black, Catriona Davidson, Ellie Phelps, Beth Hadden Competition, Go Global 29B

Coleg Sir Gar Hydraulically Operated Tine Harrow; James Phillips Competition, Energise 46E Community College Bishops Castle Scientific Cocktails; Big Top Science STEM Club, Energise 61D Conserve Me Young Science Reporters STEM Club, Go Global 18

Cummins Sponsor, Go Global 27 Cynffig Comprehensive School Ergonomic Work Station for Sony Manufacturing Centre; Hannah Jenkins, Geraint Sibley, Ross Cooper, Catrin Davies, Alex Curtis-Evans Competition, Energise 40B

D De Lisle Catholic Science College Lateral Processing of Embedded Words Evgeny Saveliev Competition, The Next Factor 120F Design & Technology Association, Mindsets and the James Dyson Foundation; Design & Technology Activity, Go Global 7 Dollar Academy Premisconceptions – Influencing Test Results; Kathryn Gillespie, Sarah Hawkins, Maddie Jamieson Competition, Body Talk 79A Dollar Academy Which Brand of Throat Lozenges is Most Effective?; Ciara O’Connell, Bethan Scott Competition, Body Talk 81C

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Emmanuel College Pedu Toddler (baby shoe alarm); Jess Leighton Competition, Energise 42F Emmanuel College Safe and Sound (cot death alarm); Emily Miller Competition, Energise 42E Extreme Fliers Remote Controlled Toys Activity, The Next Factor 126

F F1 In Schools / 4x4 In Schools Activity, Making Trax 133

Glenmoor School Helps At Hand; Eleanor Weeks, Katie Buddell Competition, Go Global 29D Glenmoor School Password Safe; Loren Snowden, Kateryna Zhyvitska, Ellie Stanton Competition, Go Global 25A Goodrich Sponsor, The Next Factor 100 Google Sponsor, The Next Factor 116 Gower College Twin-Hulled Personal Water Transport; William Shackley Competition, Go Global 1B

FESTO: AirPenguins and Bionic Learning Activity, The Next Factor 124

Great Sankey High School Automatic Shut Off Device Project; Gary Allister Competition, Energise 46F

FIRST® LEGO® Education Activity, Go Global 16

Greenpower Activity, Making Trax 132

Food and Drink Federation Sponsor, Farm 2 Fork 138

Grosvenor Grammar School Halo; Eve McClelland Competition, Go Global 22F

The Food Factory, featuring The Science of Sugar Activity, Farm 2 Fork 141 Formby High School Innate immune networks are altered by HIV but remain competent in response to Pneumococcus; James North Competition, Body Talk 82B

GSK – Scientists in Sport Sponsor, Body Talk 90

H Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls Search for Variable Stars in the Galactic Plane; Jemma Goldstein Competition, The Next Factor 104A

Harlaw Academy Cafe Project Green Tea; Sam MacKay, Teigan Marr, Rosie Malone, Musa Ali, Larissa Gill Competition, Go Global 25B Harper Adams University Sponsor, Farm 2 Fork 144 Harrogate High School Outdoor Pursuits Clothing; Abbie Milnes Competition, Energise 47A

Ipswich Acadamy High Altitude Ballooning Project; HAB Project STEM Club, The Next Factor 98A

J Jack Hunt School Left handed electric guitar project; Joseph Steele Competition, Energise 63E

Hazlehead Academy Diagnosing embryo abnormalities in zooplankton; Mairi Bell Competition, Body Talk 86B

Jaguar Land Rover Sponsor, Making Trax 131

Heaton Manor School Portable Security Device; Matthew Parker Competition, Energise 63D

John Cleveland College Aspirin – Drug Design and Development; Katie Webb, Emma Sherriff, Aisling Lynch-Kelly, Katharine Lynch-Kelly Competition, Body Talk 79D

Herschel Space Observatory Activity, The Next Factor 113 Hills Road Sixth Form College Experimental Science for Rural African Schools (ESRAS); Peter Rees Competition, Body Talk 77C Holy Cross College Wriggly Invaders: Parasitic Worm Infection; Niall Briggs Competition, Body Talk 87C Home educated G.R.I.D; Alan Bannon, Callum Williams Competition, Go Global 13C

I IBM Sponsor, Go Global 31 Institution of Civil Engineers Tallest ICE Tower Sponsor, Go Global 6 Institution of Engineering and Technology Sponsor, Energise 37 Ilford County High School Computer modelling of embryonic heart development; Vincent Poon Competition, The Next Factor 120B Imperial College London The Heart of the Matter Activity, Body Talk 72 Imperial College London and Exscitec How Science Works Activity, Energise 55 In the Zone Olympic Roadshow – Wellcome Trust Activity, In the Zone 136 Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors Well old is well ‘ard – Designing for our ageing society Activity, Go Global 14 Institute of Food Research Food for Sport Activty, Farm 2 Fork 140 Institute of Physics Visualising the Invisible Activity, The Next Factor 111 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine Medical Physics and Engineering is good for your Health! Activity, Body Talk 83

JCB Sponsor, Making Trax 130

K Kendrick School A Phototherapy Unit for Neonatal Jaundice; Joanna Chan Competition, Energise 58C King Edward VI Aston School Comparison of numerical libraries for matrix computation; Jonathan Pittaway Competition, The Next Factor 110C King Edward VI High School for Girls A Pilot Study of Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Donya Ghorbani Competition, Body Talk 87E King Edward VI High School for Girls The Relationship of Adenovirus to Proteins in the Cellular DNA Damage Repair Pathways; Stephanie Galvao Competition, Body Talk 89A King Edward VII Science & Sports College Gas Entry Tee Shut Off Mechanism; Slater Jinkinson, William Thompson, Michael Hannah, Andrew Cliff Competition, Energise 54D King James School Children’s Game; Hannah Carass Competition, Go Global 9C King James School Sensory Lighting; Charlie Vaux Competition, Energise 46C Kingsbury High School 3D modelling of arterial valves in mice and human embryos; Mariam Zaidi Competition, Body Talk 80F Kirkbie Kendal School Investigation into the effects of conductive Binder Systems on the surface and through plane resistance of a non-conductive base sheet; Ben Clarke Competition, The Next Factor 121F

L L’Oréal – Young Scientist Centre Activity, Body Talk 71 Lancaster University Science and Technology at Lancaster University Activity, Energise 35

Langside College Analysis of a Mathematical Model of Nematode Infection in Sheep; Abigail Stear Competition, Body Talk 77D Leicester High School for Girls The dynamic of eosinophilic inflammation in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Saara Adam Competition, Body Talk 87A Little Ilford School Young Engineers STEM Saturday club; Noor Mahomed STEM Club, Go Global 26D Liverpool College iPhone Apps – A Future in Medicine?; Emma Lathar Competition, Energise 58D Lockheed Martin Sponsor, The Next Factor 115 Lombard Sponsor, Energise 51 Loreto College Adventures in the Doped Crystallisation of Potassium Bromide with Lead (II) Nitrate and its relaxation processes; Jack McCann Competition, Body Talk 86D Loreto College Cracking up Sean McKendry Competition, Body Talk 77A Loreto College Flipping, Falling, Tumbling Cards; Thomas McMullan, Vincent McMullan Competition, Body Talk 81B Loreto College Infrared Spectroscopic Signatures of Cancer in Renal Tissue; Hanan Abdimalik Competition, The Next Factor 120D

M Maiden Beech School Insulation – A Load of Hot Air?; Harry Manley, Lily Limmer, Archie Mitchell, Emily Hill Competition, The Next Factor 114 Maltby Academy Trickii Twista Pod; Martha Gregory, Leigh Roberts, Darcie Lacey, Casey Turner Competition, Go Global 25C Medical Research Council Medical Research: Changing Lives Activity, Body Talk 68 Merchant Taylors School Parallel Motion Crutches ; Alex Joseph Competition, Energise 46A Merchant Taylors School, Crosby Synthesising key intermediates for antimalarials using the Ullmann-Goldberg reaction; Bara Taufik Competition, Body Talk 80E Merchiston Castle School Collapsible Goalposts; Lewis Murphy Competition, Go Global 9F Montsaye Community College The Whole Glove Leak Test Machine; Mollie Spiezick Competition, The Next Factor 110A The Big Bang Fair – Birmingham 2012 55

N National Grid Sponsor, Energise 53 National Science & Engineering Week Our World in Motion Activity, Entry D National Skills Academy for Power Sponsor, Energise 45 NEW Academy A Chocolate Teapot! STEM Club, Go Global 26A Newcastle College Blood spatter and its patterns; Yasmin Vajeth Competition, The Next Factor 104E Newland House School Shell Eco Marathon, IOM3 Timber Bridge Building; Tyres pumped up CO2 down; Newland House Young Engineers club STEM Club, Energise 61B Newland House School Tyres up CO2 down; Patrick Bamforth, Max Evans, Jaydon Softly, Hector Kelly Competition, The Next Factor 105C Newminster Middle School The Synthesis of Aspirin; Edward Syndercombe, Sam Monery, Finn Farthing, Ben Ferstenberg Competition, The Next Factor 119D Newminster Middle School What are the Best Conditions to Grow Plants in our Wildlife Garden?; Sarah Larby, Kirsty Lang, Fran Adamson, Victoria Levison Competition, Body Talk 95B Newminster Middle School Which Hair Shampoo Strengthens our Hair the Most?; Emma Allison, Neve Gascoigne, Alina Noshin Competition, Body Talk 94A Northfield Academy Analysis and comparison of gene expression in thalidomide treated and wildtype embryos; Kieran Whitford Competition, Body Talk 86F Norwich School Correlation between hand grip and disease activity score (DAS28) in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis; Katie Gaffney Competition, The Next Factor 121A Nottingham High School Flood Alert; Simon Crowther Competition, Energise 46D Nottingham High School Illuminet; Edward Reckless Competition, Energise 63C Nottingham High School for Boys Autodock; Sam Wheelhouse Competition, Go Global 3A Nottingham Trent University Sponsor, Farm 2 Fork 142

O Oakham School Bike light and car detection; Harry Rigby Competition, Energise 42A

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Oakham School Car Lighting Board for Event Sailing Boats; Alice Kent Competition, Go Global 1E Ormiston Victory Academy Optimizing DNA sample preparation using robots!; Hannah Beavis Competition, Body Talk 74C

Reed’s School Investigating Soils; Jonathan Salmon Competition, The Next Factor 117A Renewable Ripley Renewable Ripley – Geodesic Chicken Run Ripley St Thomas High School STEM Club, Body Talk 73B Research Councils UK Global Food Security Activty, Farm 2 Fork 145

Paignton Community College The effect of temporary and permanent hair dye on hair; Tasmin Wiles, Alisha Anderson, Jessica Arthur, Megan Hext, Sadie Simons, Elinor Smyth, Rebecca Bainbridge Competition, Body Talk 96D

RNLI Lifeboat Lab Activity, Go Global 32

Painsley Catholic College Pre-start monitoring system for JCB machines; Jack Bourne, Samuel Casey, Eleanna Parkinson, Dale Sigley Competition, Energise 43C

Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance Activity, The Next Factor 128

Parkside Community College Study and Analysis of the Orbital and Physical Properties of 2010 TK7; Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh Competition, The Next Factor 117C Pershore High School Gear Box Alignment; Jack Capel-Shyu, Alasdair Mustard, Jordan White, Alexander Wagner Competition, Energise 54C

Rolls-Royce Sponsor, Go Global 10

Roundwood Park School Do cereal aphids prefer old or new varieties of wheat?; Ruth Carter Competition, Body Talk 82E Royal Academy of Engineering Engineering is... Activity, The Next Factor 101 Royal Observatory Greenwich Future Worlds Activity, The Next Factor 106 Royal Observatory Greenwich: Halley’s New Horizons Activity, The Next Factor 102

Peter Symonds College Investigation into the process of anterior and posterior regeneration in Sabella pavonina using histological examination; Tim Honey Competition, Body Talk 85C

Rugby High School Measuring Angle of Rotating Turbine Ribs; Holly Williams, Terri-Anne Foulconbridge, Jenny Eyre, Eve George Competition, Energise 54B

PSI – Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Clinical Trial Game Activity, Body Talk 88

Rugby High School Toothpastes – The Good, The Bad and The Brilliant; Anna Bates, Hattie Jack, Alice Hargreaves Competition, Body Talk 96A

Q Queen Mary University of London – School of Physics and Astronomy; Going Nuclear Activity, Energise 44 Queen Mary University of London, School of Engineering and Materials Science Bionic Man Activity, Body Talk 93

R Rainham Mark Grammar School Grime Busters; Benjamin Towers, Hollie Lane, Lizzie Mutter Competition, The Next Factor 119C Redmoor High School Mucky Mobile Microbes! ; Megan Whittaker, Rebecca Stock Competition, Body Talk 95D Redmoor High School Our Body’s Social Network; Redmoor STEM club STEM Club, Energise 49A Reed’s School Hygiene; Jack Le Feuvre, Edmund Wilkinson, Will White Competition, Body Talk 95C

S Sacred Heart RC School Earth Guy; Mitchell Hillyard, Naomi Spellman, Saffie Heselton, Courtney Watson Competition, Go Global 30D Saffron Walden County High School Gene Expression In The Developing Carotid Body; Danielle Lis Competition, Body Talk 89E Sandbach High School and SFC Website Design For a Paralympic Athlete; Ellie Guildford, Holly Carter, Emma Duff, Rachel Joyce Competition, Go Global 30C Saudi Aramco Sponsor, Energise 38 Science Museum Sponsor, Energise 62 Science and Technology Facilities Council Stakeholder Sponsor, The Next Factor 109 SELEX Galileo Sponsor, Go Global 28

Sellafield Sponsor, Energise 57 Shell Sponsor, Energise 50 Shell Family Fun Day Activity/Competition, Making Trax 129B Siemens Sponsor, Go Global 20 Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys CLEAR – Making Radiation Visible; David Hewett, Richard Ladley, Chris Cundy, Matt Brady, Louis Sharrock, Louis Wilson Competition, Body Talk 81A Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School and Performing Arts College Role of Endocannabinoids in Pancreatic cell function; Salma Khan Competition, Body Talk 89D Society for General Microbology The Good, the Bad and the Algae Stakeholder Sponsor, Body Talk 92 Society of Biology Animals to energy, getting to the heart of the Biology of Sport Activity, Body Talk 84 Society of Environmental Engineers Simple Solar Water Heater Activity, Energise 52 South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy Materials Science and The Olympics – Which Material is best?; WISE Club STEM Club, Body Talk 78A Southlands High School Southlands Stem Stars STEM Club, The Next Factor 98C St Albans School The Trap Cropping of Delia Radicum for Broccoli using Chinese Cabbages; Philip Madgwick Competition, Body Talk 82A St Augustines RC Secondary School Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll Couture Gown; Bethany Wild Competition, Go Global 9A St Colmans College, Newry Multi-Lift; Mark McEvoy Competition, Energise 58E St Davids Catholic College Air Pressure Monitor; Dean Saif, Shannon Horrigan, Daniel Giernalczyl, Michael Stitfall Competition, Energise 40A St Davids Catholic College Contraction Optical Monitoring System; Wasim Miah, Jessica Jones Competition, Energise 43B St George’s School Biomarkers to identify the changes in proteins produced in cells as they progress from Barrett’s Oesophagus to Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma; Alexandra Rose Competition, Body Talk 85E

St Mary’s College, Derry A Spoonful of Medicine (Investigating the possible consequences of mis-measuring medicines); Lavina Blanking Competition, The Next Factor 117B St Marys College, Derry Development and Evaluation of an Odourless Fake Tan; Joanna Munaz, Danielle McGlinchey, Maria McHugh Competition, Body Talk 79B St Marys College, Derry How Do Different Salts Affect the Freezing Point of Water?; Kennedy Keeney-Robinson, Nicole McHugh Competition, The Next Factor 114D St Marys College, Derry The Development and Evaluation of a Handy Method to Determine the Concentration of Active Ingredients in Ramipril and Simvastatin; Saoirse Nash Competition, Body Talk 77B St Peter’s Catholic Comprehensive School Observing Plasma Flows in the Magnetosphere; Jennifer Wallin Competition, The Next Factor 110B St Peter’s Catholic School Rollercoaster Rumble!; St Peter’s Science and Engineering club STEM Club, Energise 60A St Peters Academy Green for Go; SCIENTRIFIC STEM Club, Go Global 33B St Thomas More School Which Vegetarian Animal Dung Acts as the Best Fertiliser; Rachel Bell, Emma Cartwright, Hannah McAloone, Charlotte Neumann Competition, Body Talk 95A St. Bede’s Catholic Comprehensive School STEM Club. Young Engineers, F1 in Schools, Crest, Toyota Rapid, Greenpower etc. St Bede’s Young Engineers STEM Club STEM Club, Go Global 26C St. Mary’s College, Crosby Processing and Characterisation of SHS 7574 Nanosteel by Selective Laser Melting; Helen Sheehan Competition, The Next Factor 110F Stamford School Outboarder; Jamie Serjeant Competition, Go Global 9E Stockport Grammar School Engineering Far-red Fluorescently Tagged RAB Proteins; Corrie Porter, Guy Mayneord Competition, The Next Factor 122B Stockport Grammar School The effects of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) on Perivascular Adipose Tissue (PVAT) function; Andrew Prossor, Chloe Withers Competition, The Next Factor 122A Stoke Newington School Determining the sensitivity of a panel of four head and neck squamous cell carcinoma lines to apoptin; Tom Clegg Competition, Body Talk 80A

Stretford Grammar School Bottled Water vs Tap Water; Moiz Ali, Zain Anwar, Zak Andrabi Competition, The Next Factor 114C Sutton Grammar School for Boys APEX III: High Altitude Balloon; Daniel Saul, Priyesh Patel, Edward Branford, Alex Wakefield, Alex Landless, Philip Warren Competition, Go Global 13D Sutton Grammar School for Boys Autonomous Navigational System; Dave Kozielec Competition, Energise 63A Sutton Grammar School for Boys Robotic Guide Dog; Thomas Ladyman Competition, Go Global 3C Sydenham High School No Voice, No Choice; Olivia Banton Competition, Body Talk 86A

T Tapton School Jaguar Car Challenge; Andrew Craig, Joshua Wren, George Shepherd Competition, Go Global 29A Thales Sponsor, The Next Factor 99 The Blue Coat School The Effect of Chemotherapy Agents on Different Pancreatic Cancer Lines; Rabeel Chaudhry Competition, Body Talk 87D The Godolphin School Air Launched Munitions Visual; Capture System; Florence Collyer-Powell, Alexia Hopson-Hill, Annie Huckstep, Daisy Nicholls, Zoë Rogers Competition, Energise 54A The Grange Secondary School Fun Forms of Transport!; The Grange STEM club STEM Club, Go Global 33A The Grey Coat Hospital Mice and Worms: The New Supermodels?; Maia Rowe-Sampson Competition, Body Talk 80D The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College Astronomical Observations; Kerry Wales Competition, Body Talk 77E The High School of Glasgow Comparing the Relative Strength of Plastic Bags; Oliver Weston Competition, The Next Factor 117F The High School of Glasgow Fighting off Herpes; Roshni Mansfield Competition, Body Talk 89F The Joseph Whitaker School Young Engineers – The possibilities are endless; Joseph Whitaker Young Engineers Club STEM Club, Body Talk 78C The King’s School Gas Cylinder Measurement Product; Jordan Godden Competition, Go Global 1A

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The Lady Eleanor Holles School Divide and Rule: Measuring cell division in the palate; Charlotte Burton Competition, Body Talk 85A

Torquay Boys’ Grammar School Video Piloted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Alistair Roberts Competition, Go Global 3B

Watford Grammar School for Girls Does Hairspray Weaken the Strength of Human Hair?; Kate Quillan, Mythiri Sutharson Competition, Body Talk 94C

The Latymer School Investigating different radiosensitisers for cancer treatment involving radiotherapy; Naomi Egbivwie Competition, Body Talk 74F

The Welding Institute (TWI) Welding with chocolate Activity, Go Global 12

West Kirby Grammar School Identification of Cell Surface Proteins for Targeting Pancreatic Cancer; Kirtana Vallabhaneni Competition, Body Talk 85F

The Maelor School Have you ever heard of ASA Inulins?; Hannah Jones Competition, Body Talk 80C The Mount School Children’s convertible cooking station; Amy Bond Competition, Energise 47D The Perse School Gravitational Lensing; Thomas Myers Competition, The Next Factor 104C The Perse School Jet Fuel: An Explosion Hazard?; Ivo Dawkins Competition, Go Global 3F The Physiological Society Modern Pentathlon Challenge Activity, Body Talk 97 The Queen Katherine School Investigation into Ageing Effects for Technical Fibre Products; Timothy Kieser, Lauren Bowness, Frances Butcher, Emma Haddon Competition, The Next Factor 122D The Royal Grammar School Ozone Layer Monitoring Mark Hammond Competition, The Next Factor 104D The Royal Navy Activity, Go Global 2 The Smallpeice Trust and The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) Stakeholder Sponsor, Go Global 15 The Thomas Adams School CNC Router; Joe Evans Competition, Go Global 3E The Tiffin Girls’ School Big Eaters of Your Body; Jiji Han Competition, Body Talk 89C The Trinity School The role of electrical activity in the nervous system during embryonic development in zebrafish; Amy Doyle Competition, Body Talk 85B The Ursuline Academy, Ilford Design a Dome; April Adrien-Greenwood, Jasmine Alexander, Fredika Animashaun, Rachel Howsen, Marijana Lucic, Charlie Neat, Kate Parker, Ineta Vaicikauskaite, Precious Sodimu, Taylor Shannon Competition, Go Global 30B Thomas Mills High School SubSonic table; Jason Goldschmidt Competition, Go Global 22E Thomas Telford School Sugar Rush; Eunice Walker, Madeleine Wong Competition, Body Talk 94D

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Twig Careers in Science Activity, Energise 56

U Uffculme School How do they get the scents in lipbalm?; Charlotte Doble, Cheyenne Jordan, Harriet Burraston, Lucy Harrison Competition, The Next Factor 119A UK Space Agency and European Space Agency Activity, The Next Factor 108 UK Space Agency: Train Like an Astronaut Activity, Body Talk 66 University of Birmingham Inspiring Young Scientists of the Future Activity, Body Talk 91 University of Kent School of Engineering and Digital Arts; Defeat SPECTRA Activity, Energise 39 University of Leicester Rotting fish and fossils: resolving the riddle of our earliest vertibrate ancestor Activity, Go Global 21 University of Surrey and University College London Schrodinger’s Cat in a Silicon Chip Activity, Energise 64 Uppingham Community College Waterproof Mascara; Ellie Hemmings, Sabrina Lucas, Calypso Keightley Competition, Body Talk 96B Urenco Sponsor, Energise 36

V VEX Robotics Activity, Making Trax 129 Victoria High School Development of IP66 Protective Caps for Tronic Connectors; Tommy Moore Competition, The Next Factor 104F

W Wade Deacon High School Sports Water Bottle; Matthew Smith Competition, Go Global 22A Wade Deacon High School Tree Lamp; Abbie Fitzpatrick Competition, Energise 42D Wallace High School Factors Affecting Facial Recognition; Ross Kirkwood Competition, The Next Factor 120E

Wildscreen ARKive’s Web of Wildlife Activity, Go Global 5 Winchester College Greenpower Car Design & Engineering with Enstruct; Electric Vehicle Technology Group STEM Club, Energise 61A Wirral Grammar School for Boys The Thermal Decomposition of Polyisobutylene; Luke Cartwright Competition, The Next Factor 121B Wreake Valley Community College Insulin Audit and Fluid Storage in the Leicester Royal Infirmary; Lona Mehta Competition, The Next Factor 120C Wycombe Abbey School The Clearvolution Water Purifier; Osaseri Guobadia Competition, Energise 47F

X X Plus Why? Factor Zone, Entry A

Y Young Enterprise Activity, Go Global 4 Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni Mascara Makers; Lowri Howard, Jodie Barnard, Amy Matthews, Beth James, Ffion Harries Competition, Body Talk 96C Ysgol Gyfun Llandbedr Pont Steffan Hedgelighthog; Corwyn Davies Competition, Energise 42B Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi Rasio Aberteifi Tigers; Rasio Aberteifi Tigers STEM Club, Energise 60B Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi Revolver; Jake Wreford Competition, Energise 63B Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi Ski Rack; Daniel Purnell Competition, Go Global 22B Ysgol Uwchradd Glan Clwyd Fibre Optic Laser Speckle Breathing Sensor; Matthew Reece, Ethan Jones, John Clayton-Hughes Competition, Go Global 13B

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