While FLEET’s face-to-face outreach efforts were necessarily limited in 2020, the Centre innovated new ways to keep our members involved in science outreach.
Several FLEET members took advantage of lockdown to generate homescience experiments at home, with a seeming bias towards experiments that involved blowing something up or setting something on fire. (An insight into lockdown frustration perhaps, or just the most fun experiments!)
FLEET members’ homescience experiments include:
- Hot ice! by Bernard Field (PhD student)
- Teabag powered rocket, by Olivier Bleu (PhD student)
- Sucking an egg into a bottle, by Yik-Kheng Lee (PhD student)
- Powerful match-head rocket, by Michael Fuhrer (Director)
- Growing salt crystals, by Abby Goff (PhD student)
- Equalising air pressure between balloons, by Qile Li (PhD student)
- How to find a rainbow, by Errol Hunt (FLEET Operations)
- Forming salt stalactites, by Abby Goff (PhD student)
- Crush a can on the stovetop, by Michael Fuhrer (Director)