St Mary's Calne
As part of British Science Week, on Thursday, 17th March, we hosted Dr Mark Lewney who is a Rock Physicist. He has won the Famelab competition and is a fantastic science communicator.
We welcomed pupils from St Margaret’s Prep Calne and Fyname and Holy Trinity Primary Schools in the afternoon and, in the evening, our UIV (Year 9) and LV (Year 10) pupils were entertained. Mark has a PhD in Guitar Acoustics and is an enthusiastic player of rock guitar. He began the show by taking requests and then took us on a journey of what makes sound, how strings vibrate and on into considering higher dimensions and vibrations of superstrings. We even heard a sonic boom from a whip! It was a highly engaging talk with lots of interesting demonstrations throughout.