Year 7/8 Harry Kroto Workshops

Sir Harry Kroto was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for the discovery of fullerenes or c60 at the University of Sussex.

Jonathon Hare worked with Harry Kroto on the discovery of the Buckminsterfullerene. His workshops will be delivered in-school for year 7/8 students to suit your needs and explore interactive aspects of STEM. 

The Discovery of the Buckyball (C60): This workshop deals with the discovery, structure and properties of the Buckyball (C60, Buckminsterfullerene) – the third allotrope of carbon - work which lead to the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Jonathan Hare was part of the pioneering Sussex team. The workshop takes us from the tiny world of atoms to the vast world of astronomy and includes each participant constructing (and keeping) a molecular model of C60.

Other workshops available include:

Hollywood Science: critically examine just how realistic extravagant Hollywood stunts are in reality.

Geodesic Domes: The Epcote Centre (Disney USA) and the Eden Project are examples of Geodesic domes - structures originally designed by the inventor and visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Voice on a lightbeam: Learn how to put our voices onto light and explore how to communicate in the vaccuum of space!