Food Festival Experi-TENT supported by Outreach Grant

We are bringing science to the Christchurch Food Festival.

The Discover Science Christchurch team have been awarded funding from the Royal Society of Chemistry. We’ll be working hard, recruiting volunteers and designing and practising fun things for you to do on 11 and 12 May.

Our pop up science activity will be at the heart of the Christchurch Food Festival on 11 and 12th May 2019.  Find out more.

The experi-TENT experiences includes hands-on activities, meet and talk to scientists and explore the science in our food. Our aim is to connect around 2000 members of the community to our passion for science.

We’re looking forward to gaining your support for a more permanent science discovery centre in the town.

Activities will include acid and base chemistry, flavour enhancers, food safety and food fraud and more general diet. Our team of volunteers will have a range of experiments and demonstrations as well as Illustrations on display boards.

Competition time!

Two competitions will support the hands-on activities and prompt engagement and discussion with chemists, material scientists and engineers.

Get in touch!

We’d love to hear from you about how to get involved and support us at this event. A training day will take place on 13th April where we will try the hands-on activities and do our risk assessments. Please register to find out more.