Machine demo – We will have a HR17 available. We will demonstrate how the machine works and explain it’s capabilities i.e. Hybrid engine. Machine demo – We will have a HR17 available. We will demonstrate how the machine works and explain it’s capabilities i.e. Hybrid engine. 
VR Headset – Take a journey through our factory as well scaling the heights of the HR28 – 92ft in the air!
Engineering challenge – Do you have what it takes to build a part of a Niftylift? This involves using the same tools we use in our factory.
Build a boom, rotating cage and a telescopic boom – Take home these replicas of our Nifty booms.
Hydraulic arms – Can you win a keyring by using the hydraulic arms? Or is the pressure too much?
Touchscreen displays – See a HR28 Engine up close and learn about 3D modelling.
Apprenticeship and Careers information stand – Learn about the career opportunities at Niftylift.

Fun activities: Buzz wire game and Scalextric racing

Colouring activity table for smaller children

Full fibre technology information

CityFibre careers & training opportunities.

For anyone who’s interested, we will demonstrate with a fusion splicer, showing how fibres are spliced together. Then we’ll inspect to connector end-faces with a microscope and carry out a transmission test.

1. Activity 1: This activity is for older students and adults to explore shapes and space. Marshmallows form the vertices of the shape. Participants will insert the toothpicks into the marshmallows to create geometrical shapes. Activity 1: This activity is for older students and adults to explore shapes and space. Marshmallows form the vertices of the shape. Participants will insert the toothpicks into the marshmallows to create geometrical shapes. We ask the questions: which platonic solids are the  easiest to build? Which are the most difficult and why? Can you construct a trussed bridge structure? What is the tallest structure you are able to build? Can you build a dome using geodesic principles?
2. Activity 2: This activity is designed to introduce students to Tehzip art, which can then be incorporated onto a square or hexagonal design. We will be providing the hexagon and square templates. This is a drop-in session that Shirin will explain the significance, history, mathematical concept and then let participants fill their designs related to Turkish Tehzip traditions. There is also an option to create a 3D model of a platonic solid, a 3D polyhedra, which will be decorated and coloured, then assembled by the students.

We propose to have two virtual and augmented reality stations (PCs). One will demonstrate virtual reality in the gaming sector, with a change for visitors to experience to Occulus Rift through some example games developed by staff and students at the University of Bedfordshire, as well as some well known examples from the gaming industry.

The second station will involve an augmented reality cricket game, allowing users to experience a gust cricket match and have a go at being the next Ben Stokes!

Finally, we will have a selection of Augmented Reality books (users just need to download a free app from the iTunes store or Google Play). These are good for younger visitors and provide augmented reality versions of space and the solar system and a Jurassic park style book

Display of famous psychologists with a guess the psychologist activity

Brain mat

Games and puzzles in psychology: Connect 4 and cryptic crosswords

Table top activities:

Brain hats

Famous beards and moustaches

We will have a TV displaying videos

A 3D printer printing keyrings

Some samples of Additive Manufacturing

• LUVMI-X rover science and navigation cameras – VR application, TV display and 3D-printed models

• Schools micro Gravity Rocket Experiment – recovered flight hardware and sculptures, model of NASA WRX-R rocket

• SamCam – 3D microscope being developed in MK to fly to the moon on Luna-27 (2024)

• (TrackerCam – 3D particle tracking experiment flown on a rocket in June 2019 by the OU student team) TBC

Entrepreneurs from Queensbury’s Business Incubator will be describing their entrepreneur journey - ‘I saw a problem/gap/opportunity so I ______’ This journey from problem to innovation will be described on marketing materials and printed on participants’ t-shirts inviting discussion.Entrepreneurs from Queensbury’s Business Incubator will be describing their entrepreneur journey - ‘I saw a problem/gap/opportunity so I ______’ This journey from problem to innovation will be described on marketing materials and printed on participants’ t-shirts inviting discussion.MumPod will be a demonstration of the results from the ‘I saw a problem so I ____ ‘ model.

The designer will be on hand to talk about her innovation journey and the STEM skills she developed along the way.  Other incubator clients will be attending in a similar capacity. The crafting area will use Twister mats to represent ‘problems’ - ie. Getting from a green spot to a yellow spot without touching the white part of the mat. Visitors to the stand will be invited to use art straws and sticky tape to build a structure bridging the gap. This is engineering and construction.

The premise is that the construction of a successful and sustainable city/building/structure requires a broad range of skills.  From the creativity required for vision to the technical skill to build safely and sustainably.  Participants will apply a variety of their existing skills to the task and be shown how these talents might be used in a career in STEM.In addition, Queensbury will be launching a competition to win a place on our Incubator Programme, in a Dragon’s Den style pitch on our stand, entrants will also be supported in developing a mini business plan, as we talk through their idea.

TNMoC will have three computers playing an Enigma challenge game. There will be a scoreboard where the highest score for the morning session and afternoon session will each win a prize.

TNMoC will have three computers playing an Enigma challenge game. There will be a scoreboard where the highest score for the morning session and afternoon session will each win a prize.Information about Qufaro CyberEPQ and other courses will be available with staff on hand to discuss in more detail.

Qufaro will have infographics to hand out with course details as well as TNMoC promotional leaflets and we will collect contact information from interested parties.

3 computers with retro gaming, all PAT tested.

Heritage quiz

We will be playing the Worktree “Find Your Job” card game to demonstrate how it helps young people to select the career path that most suits them. However, the primary purpose of our attendance will be to recruit guests for the Career WorkOut sessions we carry out for schools.

Project 1 (LAQUA meters) will showcase how to measure the fluorescence of common drinks, such as squash and tonic water, as a method to chemically fingerprint and identify similarities and differences. It will illustrate how things that look identical to the eye can be very quickly distinguished through the use of light and spectroscopy.

Project 2 (Duetta), will showcase how to measure calcium, pH, conductivity, sodium and potassium of food, milk and water with our pocket size meters and what the measurements mean. The samples will be in small quantities, such as a drop of water or milk.

There will be a statci racing car on display

Hands on automotive engineering in a slightly smaller scale, plus try out what you’ve done on our track.

We provide the opportunity for people to get hands on with automotive engineering using radio-controlled model racing cars.

While these cars are small they are by no means simple, they feature the same chassis engineering as one would find in any normal racing car and are equipped with electric motors and drive system as sophisticated as used in any other form of electric motorsport.

The advantage in our case being that all of this can be conducted on a desk, in a classroom.

Additionally, we have a specially manufactured test track where, complete novices to the sport, can get hands on with the vehicles to test what they’ve been working on – or simply have a bit of fun at the end of a session!