Trentham Gardens

A view over the Italian gardens at Trentham Gardens

Good morning everyone Scott here, just giving you an update of the event that happened over the weekend at Trentham Gardens.

The weekend itself went really, really well. We had lots and lots of people coming into the tent and exploring the world of molecules and many tired to build some for themselves. The weather held up and Saturday was our best day – very sunny with only a slight breeze. Sunday on the other hand was a little different with overcast of clouds and a few spots of rain, it wasn't until I left at 3pm when it really poured down with rain and poor Graeme and Josh got absolutely soaked.

Our tent was right next to the models already present, Carbon Rapture, and as people came into the gardens via the entrance, they were curious as to why we were there. Once they came inside we got them stuck into building some molecules. Many built the Fake Tan molecule and Graeme explained to them why this molecule makes people's skin brown and how this process links in with chicken being cooked. Below is a photo of Graeme showing some children how to build their molecules.

When people had finished building their molecules we took their photo which they are now able to obtain by viewing our Flickr site, see link at the bottom of this post or in the links section to the right. 

What's really cool is how many people were really interested in why the Make-it-Molecular team had a stand there – so we pointed out our Carbon Rapture models in the gardens and the new DNA model to go and take a look at. Below is a picture taken on Thursday once we completed the DNA model. It looks truly amazing and what's more great is that it looks apart of the rose arch way as if it belongs there.

So that was the weekend at Trentham Gardens. There are lots and lots of photos on our Flickr site so go and have a look at them....

Have a lovely day and I'll post back with any news as and when it comes in.

Scott.

Links

Flickr - our photo site

Trentham Gardens