Sat 13 March: 10am - 5pm. Sun 14 March: 11am - 5pm
As part of Maker Faire, come along to Discovery for free taster events suitable for all the family including a glowstick engineering challenge and performances by Jigart – a beautiful robot made from plastic bottles found in skips and tips.
Ever-Growing Glow Sticks
10.30am & 2pm (Lasts 2 hrs)
Join Dr Sarah McLusky and museum staff to take part in our glow stick construction challenge! See how tall our structure will be and help it grow by adding more glow sticks. Suitable for all ages.
Jigart – Dancing Illuminated Robot
This 14 foot robot thrives on interaction with people. She is fully animated and in the evening she is illuminated with state of the art lighting. She meets, greets, waves, grooves and pulsates with light. Don’t be surprised if she breaks into a dance routine, if there is music nearby!
Jigart is made out of plastic bottles found in skips and tips, and was designed to promote the idea of re-using plastic bottles question the ‘throw-away society’ in which we live. Her mission is to ask our wasteful world why we continue to pollute the planet with our one time use, over-packaged mass marketed consumables. She wants answers, action, and she also wants a little bit of fun in getting her message across in the most beautiful way she can.
Booking: Free, no booking required. Just drop in!
On the same weekend......Check out the
AV festival exhibits!