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Interview with Heather Frost - Education Manager: Public Programmes

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BM: Another thing as well, talking about the brochures, they often emphasis that Techniquest is a fun place to come and visit. What is important about fun do you think? Or why is it important that it's fun?

HF: The fun is that if you - if you're engaging this sort of thing, if you're enjoying yourself. It's not - there's the side that if you enjoy yourself you're more likely to remember it. You're more likely to learn something. Reticent to use the word learn. But - but it's also that it creates a positive image for science. So - even if you don't, say, even if you leave Techniquest and you don't remember a single thing about, you know, why the ball stays in the air for the Bernoulli Blower or why - ink - spreads out in the chromatography. Even if you don't - even if you don't remember anything like that, if you've enjoyed yourself then the theory is that you're - you know, well when you've had a good time you've been amused which is, you know, you want that to happen but also that you feel a bit more - positive about - science º( )º