Cuddly ScienceSarah Snell-Pym

We have the wherewithal, theknow-it-all to feed everybody,

clothe everybody, and give every

human on Earth a chance.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Teach a child tothink, toinvestigate, toinnovateAnd they will solve their ownproblems, those of theircommunity and maybe global

ones too.

Image Problem

Science is for EVERYONE

Make Science Cuddly

๏ Sci-Art

๏ Knitting patterns

๏ Stories

๏ Relate it to things they know

Accessibility

Start the thinking young

What is CuddlyScience?A way to engage children in

science, technology, engineering,

maths and medicine

Story Telling and Kids WhoCan’t Count

Role Models

๏ Alan Turing only had one pair of trousers

๏ I had home made clothes and shoes with

holes in

๏ No one in my family went to university

๏ Role models are important

Engagement

Solutions from endemicknowledge, knowledgefrom thought, investigationand self confidence

Universe in a Box

The Future

๏ Tablet computers to help overcome

language barriers

๏ More puppets!

๏ Hand and finger puppets for kids to take

home

Self Perpetuating

Thankyou

๏ UWE science communication department

๏ My mother who helped make the puppets

๏ Alaric who drives me to festivals

๏ Universe in a box

๏ You lot for listening

๏ Ignite for having me

๏ And kids for being generally WOW about

everything