Almost a hundred primary school children were welcomed to the Ogden Primary Science Fair, hosted by Ally Caldecote, on April 12th. Finalists were selected from over 1600 entries in eight Coventry and Warwickshire schools to present their science projects to a panel of physics postgraduates and undergraduates. The finalists had an exciting experience of competing and being in a University, while the panellists enjoyed engaging with these enthusiastic young scientists.

Winners included: year 1 (age 5/6) project "Where should I keep my balloon?" - she measured its size in different temperature locations; year 5 project "Pigs in Space" - using sausages as substitutes for pigs and subjecting them to different environments, such as using a blowtorch to simulate re-entry into the earth's atmosphere; year 6 project to build a cosmic ray detector - this young man knew how cosmic rays were produced, how their track curves in the Earth's magnetic field.