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What exactly is air? Take a closer look at the composition of air and at the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. Find out about the effects of air pollution, how we can monitor pollution and how we can clean up our air.

Hot Air Balloons use hot air to defy gravity but how? With hands-on tests, explore density and help us take to the sky with a sky lantern. Discuss the pioneers of hot air balloons and see if you can figure out where they went right – and wrong!

Can it fly? Why does it fly? How far can it fly? And how much weight can it carry? Engineers often create small-size models to test a product’s design. Model testing tells engineers how a design might perform in a real-world situation. The engineer can experiment with different shapes and materials to produce the perfect design for the task. In this creative engineering session you will design and make your own paper planes (or gliders!) and then see how they perform in a series of challenges.

Rockets are used in lots of places, including getting humans up into space. The forces required for this are incredible and in this session you’ll build some model rockets and consider those forces in action!

Birds are masters of flight. From acrobatic to gliding, they have adapted to fly in different ways to survive environments around the world. Can you analyse these animals and understand how different birds have evolved to fly in different ways.

Space flight features in many TV series and films where the effects of no gravity or atmosphere aren’t fully explored. So in this session we will investigate the reality of these situations and find out why space stations and satellites don’t fall to Earth, when you should actually use your engines in space, weightlessness and more.