Public Engagement in Oriel Science

猎户座科学是一个独特的、面向公众的创新展厅，展示了斯旺西大学的STEMM研究。我们举办了以我们大学的科学研究为基础的滚动主题科学展览，目标受众有两个：学生和更广泛的公众。我们的展览是可访问的、信息量大的和互动的，重点是大学STEMM社区的工作和合作。猎户座科学公司还在每个展览的同时举办学校研讨会。我们带领参观者踏上一段科学主题之旅，点燃他们探索这一主题的好奇心，并在他们的想象力中留下持久的遗产。我们鼓励年轻的参观者在学校选择STEM科目，以获得大学的STEM学位，并进一步培养年长参观者的科学资本和科学素养。猎户座科学是唯一由英国大学运营的向社会展示其研究成果的展览空间。猎户座科学的场地位于市中心的步行街购物中心，可以很好地参观我们的展览。我们目前的主题是“时间”，欢迎参观者的是一台“回到未来”的DeLorean“时光机”，一台塔迪斯，以及一个STFC大型强子对撞机的模型(把小说抛在脑后)，STFC大型强子对撞机是世界上最大的研究早期宇宙物理的机器。其他十多个展品展示了时间科学，包括一款带参观者接近黑洞的应用程序，展示了时间膨胀的旅程，一段来自格陵兰的冰川崩解事件的延时视频，以及各种粒子探测器，如云室、基于欧洲核子研究中心使用的技术的固态探测器，以及宇宙射线探测器。在一面墙的对面，我们展示了100英尺高的宇宙历史动画，从大爆炸开始，它放大了宇宙诞生后最初几个有趣的阶段。在这段时间的末尾，长城是“未来长城”，鼓励游客在纸上写下他们对未来可能发生的事情的想法。在整个展览期间，这些想法都是在6米高的滑轮系统上被提到天花板上的。在我们开放的头6个月里，我们有超过12,000名公众参观者，另外还有800名学生在有组织的学校旅行中参观。我们非常受欢迎，94%的游客说他们会把我们推荐给朋友，92%的人说他们通过这次访问学到了更多的科学知识。我们在国家和地方电视台、BBC和当地电台以及当地媒体上都有大量的媒体曝光。这项申请是为了支持猎户座科学总监开发和发展猎户座科学早期的重大成功，使其成为展示科学奇迹的重要地区性展览空间。

Oriel Science is a unique, innovative public-facing exhibition gallery showcasing Swansea University's STEMM research. We house rolling thematic science-based exhibitions based on our University's science research aimed at two target audiences: school students and the wider public. Our exhibitions are accessible, informative and interactive, focusing on the work and collaborations of the University's STEMM community. Oriel Science also hosts schools workshops in parallel with each exhibition. We take visitors on a journey through a scientific theme, ignite their curiosity to explore that theme, and leave a lasting legacy in their imagination. We inspire younger visitors to choose STEM subjects at school leading to STEM degrees in University, and further develop the science capital and scientific literacy of older visitors.Oriel Science is the only exhibition space run by a UK University which showcases its research to the community.Oriel Science's venue is in the city centre in the pedestrianised shopping mall allowing wonderful access to our exhibition. Our current theme is "Time" and visitors are welcomed by a "Back to the Future" DeLorean "time machine", a Tardis, and (leaving the fiction behind) a mock-up of the STFC Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest machine which studies the physics of the early universe. More than a dozen other exhibits showcase the science of time including an app taking the visitor on a journey close to a Black Hole illustrating time dilation, a time-lapse video of a glacial calving event from Greenland, and various particle detectors such as a cloud chamber, a solid state detector based on the technology used in CERN, and a cosmic ray detector. Across one wall we have our 100 foot "Time Wall" animation of the history of the universe starting with the Big Bang which zooms in on particularly interesting stages of the Universe such as the first few moments after its birth. At the end of this Time Wall is the "Future Wall" where visitors are encouraged to write their own thoughts on paper about what the future might hold. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, these ideas are raised on a pulley system to the ceiling, 6 metres high.In our first 6 months of opening, we have had over 12,000 public visitors with a further 800 students visiting during organised school trips. We are hugely popular with 94% of visitors stating that they'd recommend us to a friend and 92% saying that they'd learnt more about science as a result of their visit. We have had significant media exposure on TV both nationally and locally, on BBC and local radio, and in the local press.This application is to provide support for the Director of Oriel Science to exploit and build on the early, significant success of Oriel Science so that it will become an important regional exhibition space showcasing the wonders of science.