We are touring state schools in Oxfordshire in the summer and autumn terms. if you are interested, please contact sian.tedaldi@physics.ox.ac.uk.
Our activities
Our activities are fun, hands-on and engaging. They can fit within a lesson slot and are typically delivered to around 30 (workshop) or ~200 (show) young people in each session.
These are the workshops that we can provide for most visits:
- Workshop: Connect Physics - careers activity / game. The students play the role of a recruitment agency and find physics jobs for a series of fictional characters. This provides a really nice insight into the wide range of job available in physics.
- Workshop: How to Build a Quantum Computer - a special workshop for 2025, the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Through hand-on activities and puzzles, students discover the advantages of quantum computing and learn about how we are developing the technology in Oxford.
You can choose one or more workshop for your school but they will need to delivered in different lesson slots.
There are also a show that can be delivered to a whole year group:
- Show: Accelerate! - interactive demonstration lecture/show about particle accelerators OR
We do have other activities but these will not always be available. Get in touch if you want to explore a specific theme with your students.
Visiting your school
Please suggest some dates for us to visit your school and we will do our best to accommodate.
We are able to deliver consecutive workshops in lesson slots but we may require a single room for the day, otherwise we might need breaks to move equipment. The show will require up to an hour to set up.
It might be possible for us to deliver parallel activities within a single visit, or organise a second visit to ensure we talk to all classes within a year group. Let us know what would work for your school and we will do our best to accommodate!
Previous Roadshows
Here is a news story about our roadshow in 2022.