OxHOS Roadshow: The Pembroke Annual Fund

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Undergraduate Evan Usher (MPhys Physics, 2018) secured £700 funding from the Pembroke Annual Fund to go towards his outreach efforts promoting the annual Oxford Hands-On Science (OxHOS) Roadshow across the UK.

OxHos, founded in 2015, is a student-run society based at the University of Oxford which aims to spread enthusiasm for science to children in primary and secondary schools through the use of fun and engaging experiments.

Evan, along with the OxHOS committee, initially applied for £500 through the Pembroke Annual Fund and was delighted to learn that the Student Development Committee had decided to award them £700 towards their outreach efforts.

OxHOS ran their first Roadshow in the Autumn of 2015 and visited school communities and shopping centres around Oxfordshire. Since then, it has expanded hugely and has now been rolled out across Oxfordshire, Manchester and Essex. The Roadshow is organised by a team of science student volunteers who form the OxHOS committee who have been busy developing new and exciting experiments..

This year’s Roadshow had even more hands-on experiments: learning about hot air with a toaster and a bin liner, discovering forces with a spinning chair and understanding the digestive system by mashing food up! This year’s Roadshow rolled out across Oxfordshire, Manchester an Essex.

Evan commented:

‘Thinking back to my own education, I remember these sorts of outreach events always enthused me to take my scientific studies further, and so it fills me with so much pride to know that my college would fund such a fantastic cause.’

To learn more about OxHos, please visit their website by clicking here.