Techfest

Today we went to the Aberdeen beach ballroom for a family activity day as part of Techfest, which is an annual festival of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It was very much hands on with lots to do. There were some good shows also. We went into a cosmic dome and learned about the various constellations which was very interesting for both kids and adults, and also watched Professor Brainstorm do some experiments using air in his air-mazing show. J loved the home made spud gun experiment.

B and J's challenge was to build a structure out of knex capable of holding a table top. J had to wear a hard hat for the load test.

The teddy bear hospital was B's favourite part where her teddy was diagnosed with a broken paw and bandaged up. J's teddy had a cut knee after falling off the climbing frame.


In the ancient technology section they drilled wood and made a pendant using traditional tools of that era.

Amongst other things they made a mini composter using a plastic bottle, learned about dolphins in the dolphin discovery workshop, and spent ages in the puzzle section solving all of the various challenges.