Lorna Bennet

Thanks @Russell_Arnott from @incredoceans, absolutely fantastic presentation @OrkSciFest! We all breath plankton farts Best plankton: Mesodinium Rubrum looks like🌻can jump 260x its size Sharks: doctors of the ocean Sperm whales: so loud they talk to each other anywhere on the 🌎

Thank you @JamieBGall for a fascinating, funny & educational session @OrkSciFest about the elements of the periodic table. Dragons love gold as a means of curing their heartburn🐉🔥 Tellurium poisoning makes you reek of garlic & it was discovered in Romania! 🧛‍♂️🧄 #STEM #Chemistry

Another fantastic event @OrkSciFest with head gardener @GCWalledGarden, Ed Bollom, hosting a workshop to discuss the tips & challenges of growing your own fruit & veg, from planning your plot, pest control, sowing, growing & harvesting fresh produce 🫛🥕🌽🍅🫑🥒 #Sustainability

Thank you to Ian Taylor from @TWPScot for an interesting presentation about #OffshoreWind & the Ayre project in #Orkney @OrkSciFest "Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations" #STEM #Sustainability #Innovation

Fascinating event @OrkSciFest about the #Constellation Ursa Minor with composer @stuart_macrae & Astronomer @AMWeijmans beautifully combining #Music & #Science to discuss the power & inspiration of the #Stars with special guest host @jojo_durrant ✨🔭🌌 #STEM #Astronomy #Science

@DrAllan12 @jojo_durrant @OrkSciFest It was an absolutely fantastic show and we really hope to see you back with us again at future @OrkSciFest evens! 🪄🐇🔮🔬🧪

It was a delight to have my show introduced and do an audience Q&A with the superb @jojo_durrant as part of @OrkSciFest. The support from the Orkney Theatre staff and Science Festival organisers was brilliant, it was an amazing experience to be part of this fantastic event.

The beautiful Bicentennial Quilt, created in 2020, every square hand-crafted, designed & stitched by 70 volunteers celebrating the 200th anniversary of the @RoyalAstroSo is on display in @Saint_Magnus Cathedral until Wed 11th Sep as part of the @OrkSciFest. #STEM #Astronomy ✨🔭

Huge thank you to @DrAllan12 for an absolutely incredible show @OrkSciFest. Introduced by a special guest host @jojo_durrant, he wowed the audience with illusions, magic & science. Students at Dornoch Academy are so lucky to have such a passionate & enthusiastic teacher! #STEM

Fascinating talk from head gardener, Ed Bollom, about the restoration & challenges of creating 1 of the UK's largest kitchen gardens & growing food in the North of Scotland @GCWalledGarden. Truly #Inspirational & stunning results growing flowers, veg, fruit & botanicals for gin!

Fantastic presentation from Professor @martin_astro, Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal @UofGlasgow exploring the detection of spacetime ripples from colliding celestial bodies bringing exciting insights to cosmic origins of precious metals, Gold in the #Stars ✨ #STEM #Cosmology

Absolutely incredible event @OrkSciFest Swimming with Gravitational Waves. Fully immersed in the music of the universe through combining the #Scientific research @UofGlasgow and #Artistic imaginings of audiovisual artist Leon Trimble in this ‘Gravity Synth’ #Collaboration #STEM

Excited to be on our way back to the Orkney International Science Festival for an incredible week of STEM presentations, workshops and activities for all the family! Thanks to @NLFerries for providing discounted tickets for staff and volunteers travelling to support the festival.

Fantastic Peter Pan @Bamburgh_Castle on a VERY wet & windy Saturday evening by tenacious & stoic actors @Immersion_Thtr. Battling through awful weather, they made the audience laugh & sing regardless! Incredibly impressive, multiple costume changes & undampened enthusiasm🧚‍♂️🐊☠️⚓

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! #INWED24 celebrates women working in #Engineering, so it was great to catch up with @WES1919 Scotland members @SummerleeMuseum 🚂 today to chat, offer support & remind ourselves how life has been #EnhancedByEngineering. @INWED1919 🥳

Great news for the Festival, some of the UK’s top Maths communicators will visit Orkney schools as the result of a funding boost made by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences @ICMS_Edinburgh Public Engagement fund. theorkneynews.scot/2024/06/06/exp… Image Credit: Hana Ayoob

@profeenescocia @ORECatapult @Stoneywood_1 @EducationScot Thank you for inviting me. It was a pleasure to speak to such an engaged and enthusiastic class. Fantastic questions and answers all round!

Delighted to be part of the assessor panel @EDTScotland @IndustrialCadet Bronze Project North hub graduation today @NatSubseaCentre. Huge congratulations to all the teams for their fantastic projects & excellent presentations! 🏆🏅 #IndustrialCadets #STEM @ScotSTEMAmb @TheEDTUK

Fantastic, sunny and BUSY day @FalkirkLandC STEM@TheHelix family fun day for #FalkirkScienceFestival! #EngineersOfTheFuture #STEM @HelixFalkirk @STEMAmbassadors

Huge thanks to @FlotationEnergy for a fantastic opportunity to visit Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen this afternoon with colleagues from @ORECatapult, @netzero_tc & @decomcentre Also, thankful for a calm day! #FloatingWind #NetZero #EnergyTransition #WindEnergy

Super excited for the North East celebration of STEM today with @YESC_Scotland and the #ClimateSmarter project. We're all set up and ready to #inspire some #EngineersOfTheFuture ⭐