Science fest is here. Don't miss the party - Daily News & Analysis

The 10-day Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF) will be underway today at Bhartiya City to quench the curiosity of the scientifically inclined. The crowd-pullers are expected to be the four engaging workshops — ER (Evergreen Room) Surgery, Splat-tastic, Pongy Potions and World of Bubbles — which promise to keep people of all ages, especially children, engrossed in lifelike situations of the science and medical world. In the ER Surgery, visitors can actually go through all the steps of performing an emergency surgery in a simulated environment on a 'patient', with actual surgeons helping each step of the way. To learn about polymers, Splat-tastic will lure children with experiments allowing them to create anything with slimy, malleable material and also test the viscosity of their slimy creations on a 'splat-o-meter'; while Pongy Potions will transform them into chemists who can actually produce, say, perfumes, using a fair amount of chemistry. Children may get a real kick out of Bubble Magic, which involves creating various interesting shapes out of bubbles, ranging from the tiniest of them, to unbelievably large ones. Over the last 25 years the festival has been making science fun, exciting and engaging for young minds, EISF and Bhartiya City officials said. They have planned an array of over-interactive workshops, live shows and exhibits, a science circus, an international nature photo exhibition, forensic science experiments, an illusion room, smoke bonanza and lego robosports, which will keep all enthralled. Eight of EISF's specially trained science communicators have travelled to Bangalore to deliver the workshops and train the local teams ahead of the event. According to EISF, the Bangalore event could be a starting point to create and develop more science festivals across the country over the next five years. via Science - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGzcGiGvshhLQ2sTZGflnWnj05F1g&url=http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/1881947/report-science-fest-is-here-don-t-miss-the-party

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