Glasgow Science Festival 2021

Glasgow Science Festival presented Glasgow Connects, celebrating the city's role in COP26. Our exciting programme ran throughout Sept, with a distinctly green tinge. Exploring themes such as sustainability, health & wellbeing, and the environment.

Thanks to our main funders, the Scottish Government, the University of Glasgow and Event Scotland.

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GSF2021 Online Content

You can still enjoy a range of activities and talks from GSF21 Science on the Sofa, available on our YouTube channel

 

 

Glasgow Science Festival at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens

GSF at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens

A group of adults stood in front of a large glass greenhouse are holding various science related items. From left to right these are a spectroscope, recycled paper flowers, a plant in pot, a bee poster and a tic poster.

Glasgow Science Festival took over the Botanics for nine days, showcasing research from dozens of University partners. 1000s of participants enjoyed loads of free activities, workshops & exhibitions.

Ingenious Circus

Three young girls are outside practicing their circus skills by balancing a plate on a stick and spinning it around.

Circus skills taster session were offered as part of our Ingenious Circus project. With some excellent juggling, hula hooping and unicycling in action!

>Learn more about Ingenious Circus 

Tick Hunting

From left to right, there is an adult male wearing a mask and holding a giant plastic tic, a female with a large white flag and then another female holding a giant plastic tic. The table in front of them shows more information about tics.

At the What Makes Viruses Tick stall, people learned more about ticks through a scavenger hunt and quiz around the gardens. Delivered by the University of Glasgow's Centre for Virus Research.  

Really Small Science

A young girl is following instructions from the stall holder on how to make her own slime

We made bioplastics from potatoes and nanopolymer bouncy balls with the Really Small Science team, University of Strathclyde

Creating Engineers: Bridge Building Challenge

A collage of images showing children using cardboard boxes to make bridges

GSF's annual primary school engineering competition Creating Engineers was reimagined as a classroom challenge. With pupils asked to design the new active travel bridge across the River Clyde. St Helen's pupils used recycled cardboard boxes to complete the task. 

>Find out more about the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Competition

Community Engagement: Drumchapel

A flowerbed is in the picture. There is some grass with small yellow flowers one the left-hand side and soil on the right-hand side. The flowerbed has a wooden fence. Two watering cans (a red and a green one) are outside the flowerbed.

Micro:bits rain sensors & planting at Drumchapel High School Community Garden. 

Community Engagement: Milton Community Garden

A wooden gazebo has yellow ‘crime scene – do not enter’ tape wrapped around the front posts. Under the gazebo from left to right are gardening items, a Glasgow Caledonian University sign, a female adult in a white lab coat and a wheelbarrow. In front of this is a table with worksheets and pens with posters advertising about chemistry hung from the front of the table.

The Glasgow Caledonian University Forensic and Environmental Science Pop up at Milton Community Garden.

Growing Glasgow

A group of people is indoors, sitting in front of two adults, who are also sitting down. Behind the two adults, there is a white projection screen. The two adults are speaking and moving. The audience in front of them is still and listening to them talk.

Growing Glasgow film with Q&A at the Glasgow Autonomous Space 

The Walking Library

A group of people is in a park. The group is made of about 20 people who are standing up in front of two dark green benches.

The Walking Library brings books on tour throughout the City. Led by co-founder Prof Deidre Heddon, University of Glasgow  

STEM Book Displays

A bookshelf containing books about science with a focus on space. Above the bookshelf is a cardboard 3D model of a rocket which says ‘Glasgow Science Festival 2021’ on the side.

Libraries across Glasgow created these wonderful STEM book displays, featuring books linked to the festival themes. 

Paisley Road West Festival

The picture was taken outdoors and inside a gazebo. Here three GSF staff members are doing a demonstration of an activity to a group of four kids. Inbetween GSF staff members and children, there is a table where they can engage in the activity being showed to them.

Two days of STEM engagement activities as part of the Paisley Rd West community festival. 

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GSF 2021 Partners

Thank you to all our Glasgow Science Festival 2021 partners!