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28th February 2009, Oxfordshire Science Festival Opening Day,
The 2009 ‘Oxfordshire Science Festival’ began with the launch event ‘Science in Your World’ held on the 28 February 2009 in Oxford’s Bonn Square. Opened by Professor Marcus Du Sautoy’s ‘Mind Games’ show, the event featured 15 organizations whose themed stalls showcased their particular research interests with various hands on activities for all ages, in addition to the half hourly science shows.
The 15 participating organizations represented a wide range of approaches to science, spanning from the The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, showing people how to extract DNA, the opportunity to handle real museum specimen from the University of Oxford’s Natural History Museum, to the use of observational and analytical skills to name various specimens
