Science Buddies

Visit Hopetown Darlington’s new Saturday morning Science Buddies Club!

Join Science Buddies for weekly handson STEM fun! Discover new STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and maths) concepts through awesome practical engineering and thrilling science activities.

Here’s what’s coming up…

Week 1, Saturday 14 September All about time – Quick and slow exciting science experiments.

Week 2, Saturday 21 September How high!? – Is it the materials or the shapes that create the best structures?

Week 3, Saturday 28 September Fizzy fun – Who can master chemistry in this fun workshop?

Week 4, Saturday 5 October VaVaVroooom – It's all about fun with vehicles in this workshop creating hovercrafts, sailing boats and cars!

Week 5, Saturday 12 October Brilliant Biology – Explore habitats and meet Einstein in this Biology workshop.

Week 6, Saturday 19 October Roll up, roll up! – explore speed and physics through engineering.

Week 7, Saturday 26 October Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! – Perfect potion fun with acids and alkalis.

Week 8, Saturday 2 November Bright Sparks – We’re buzzing for electrical engineering creating circuits.

Here’s an incentive for you. If you attend eight sessions, you will win a Star Crest award (ooooo!). We’ll be adding more sessions so don’t worry if you don’t make all of the first eight sessions. The weekly Saturday Science Buddies Club is suitable for children aged 5+, but younger ones more than welcome with adult supervision.