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Strands Science Discussions (The Next Big Thing) Scientific Lectures The Young Scientist’s Day (Snapshots) The Science Archive Reflections on Science Workshops Science workshops for very young children

GM Foods Part 2 Vega has pioneered a new concept in TV debate Participants should actually understand the subject! GM Foods Part 2

Financial Times 16th August 2000 “The most enthralling programme I saw on television last week – in fact I have seen nothing so fascinating for months – was called The Next Big Thing: Nanotechnology” Vega OU co-production for BBC2

GM Foods – Safe? Lord Jenkin Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology: “I watched with complete fascination. It was by far the best discussion of the issues that I have seen or heard”

Children’s Workshop Modules

Snapshots Sarah McGowan – Engineer, GLA Building, Ove Arup Birgittt Liss (30) – Neurobiologist (from Germany), Parkinson’s disease, Oxford Jeama Stanton (23) – PhD student, Biodiversity, Crayfish David Milstead (31) – Lecturer, Particle Physics, Magnetic monopoles, Liverpool, DESY (Berlin) Miles Peabody - Mini-Sub exploration, Electronics, Navigation, Antarctic Shelf Team Chinmay Gupta – Junior surgeon, Sports Injuries (Knees), Charing Cross Hospital