Day In London!!

Since this was our week in London, after the academy my friend and I went to the Royal Society Science Exhibition and it was A-MAAAZZZ-ZING!!! I'm not even exaggerating! It was incredible, I was buzzing when I got home and I still give the biggest smile whenever I remember bits of it!

We got a lot of free things! Including 8 badges (I have to start a collection now!) and a few things to add to my wall which I will post about later. On one of the stands we made Graphene (one layer of graphite) and looked at it under a microscope which in itself was very cool. I haven't really seen such a high tech microscope before so I was impressed anyway but then we were awarded a Nobel price (aka a giant chocolate coin) for our work!

My personal favourite form our collection of freebies were the physicist top trumps! They are extremely cool and I could literally feel myself glowing from the second we got them! There isn't one for Nikola though so I will be making a few extra at some point, even though they are technically supposed to be particle Physicists.

I won't tell you about all the different stands because it was amazing and you really have to go yourself. Everything was so interactive and the exhibition staff were extremely interesting and helpful. I wish I could have spend longer there and I will definitely be returning next year!

However I do have to tell you a couple of things! At school recently we have been doing medical Physics and this has included some work on endoscopes. At the exhibition I got to use an endoscope!! I was moving a gear stick type thing around and I could see on a screen where I was going and next to me I could see a real life endoscope moving inside a plastic heart. And the endoscope has sensors so that it will not allow you to go too far and puncture a hole in the heart - I felt it stop me, this is something you just don't get from a textbook!

I actually really enjoyed the Biology stalls too! Especially one about colour (I never knew flowers have UV to attract Bees) and another about how Bats spread disease.

As a rule of thumb I always feel that any trip that involves almost being hit in the face several times due to over excited hand gesticulation, is a good one! We had particularly enthusiastic speakers at the particle Physics and the Aurora stands. Actually that was another cool thing, I saw an Aurora simulation which involved magnets in a vacuum and I was really impressed by that!

On the way back we stopped of at M and M world which was so big and 'normal people awesome' I was blown away! I bought a box of M and M's which had 22 different flavour (I checked, I definitely have 22!) and they are yummy!