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Almost a hundred primary school children were welcomed to the Ogden Primary Science Fair, hosted by Ally Caldecote, on April 12th. Finalists were selected from over 1600 entries in eight Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire schools to present their science projects to a panel of physics postgraduates and undergraduates. The finalists had an exciting experience of competing and being in a University, while the panellists enjoyed engaging with these enthusiastic young scientists.

Winners included: year 1 (age 5/6) project "Where should I keep my balloon?" - she measured its size in different temperature locations; year 5 project "Pigs in Space" - using sausages as substitutes for pigs and subjecting them to different environments, such as using a blowtorch to simulate re-entry into the earth's atmosphere; year 6 project to build a cosmic ray detector - this young man knew how cosmic rays were produced, how their track curves in the Earth's magnetic field.