The lucky winners will represent their school at the grand final held at the University of York in July 2000. In the morning, each of the teams demonstrated experiments from an investigative project they had developed over the last few months to a panel of judges from industry, Education and the University of Surrey. This was followed by a chemical magic lecture demonstration with explosions, luminescence and lots of fun with liquid nitrogen including making magnets float in mid air. The first prize of 250 was presented to the winning school by Bob Pirie of BOC Gases, who sponsored this year's Festival.
Clubs can also provide a focus for working with local science-based companies and universities.
Jackie Spiers in the University's Press Office, tel. 01483 8879314.