Science City Day at EMBL Hamburg
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Major public engagement event in Hamburg attracted thousands
On 1 June, EMBL Hamburg participated in Science City Day – the first public engagement event dedicated to showcasing science at the DESY campus and raising awareness of the city’s urban development project ‘Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld’. The event attracted over 15,000 people and covered a range of exciting and educational activities. The video below shows some impressions from the day.
During the event, EMBL Hamburg together with EMBL’s Science Education and Public Engagement office (SEPE) offered fun activities for different age groups. These included using the Microscope in Action – a fluorescence microscope that EMBL SEPE leases to schools for free, folding a DNA origami, fishing for crystals, taking exciting tours of the EMBL beamlines, and more. One of the highlights included a living, walking, talking T-Rex – a great performance by one of the EMBL scientists working at T-REXX endstation, a joint EMBL and HARBOR experimental station dedicated to time-resolved experiments with crystallography.
Learn more about EMBL’s science education and public engagement activities here.