Pub Quiz

Hello!
I'm Anna , the latest addition to the Egypt-team making my first appearance on the blog :D!

This Wednesday we had our Pub Quiz at Curlers. We had a great turnout with lots of people showing up, tempted by our great prizes (such as a kilo of pasta: every hungry students dream, as well as first class rape alarm for those late Glasgow nights).


It was a close battle between the teams. Five rounds of questions: general knowledge, celebrity breakups, "name that tune", ancient love stories and (the compulsory) sports culminated in triumph for team "Roses are red...". The name competition however was won by the "Sphinxters" for their slightly dirty Egypt-related naming skills.

In the end everyone had a good time, Lydia herself even managed to take home some raffle prizes and the Egypt Expedition is a little step closer to our economic goal.
Our next event will be the Band Night on the 12th of March, so keep your eyes open for that!

x
Anna :)

Guy is getting ready to play some tunes!

The happy winners :D

Thanks to everyone who supported our recent bakesale! x

Public outreach – let’s get started

Yesterday we had a meeting with Debbie McNeil, who is organising the Glasgow Science Festival. She is going to help us with our public outreach campaign and has been advising us about the next steps to take.

We are hoping to work with students from schools around Glasgow to engage them because we want them to get an opportunity to learn about the amazing ecosystems we will be exploring. To do so we will become STEM ambassadors (http://www.stemnet.org.uk/content/stem-ambassadors) in the next few weeks. It’s a great preogramme because it will give us the opportunity to work with schools on different project even after the expedition and is recognised UK-wide.

Our first project will be a marine themed hand-print competition; I have tried it out myself below:

I am sure the kids will do a much better job! These prints will also go on our t-shirts, which is exciting. We are really looking forward to get involved in the public outreach, in particular as we think it is important to get pupils excited about the work we will be conducting in Egypt.