BM: In general what would you say is the underlying principle behind how Techniquest does its education side of things? What are the foundations to your approach.
HF: It's got to be hands-on, that's the underlying foundation. That people engage physically with something - that it's not passive, you're not pouring stuff into someone's brain you're getting them to physically engage and therefore take on. So, in any, you'll find that - perhaps the planetarium's about the most passive thing that we do but some of the planetarium shows now we're trying to be a bit more sort of interactive. And obviously all the exhibits are interactive. The um the workshops are always a hands-on thing. They sort of, you know, people get in and get their hands on stuff.
The science theatre is interactive in the sense that you'll be able to get some volunteers down. You may not be able to get everyone down and it's always - in a science theatre show it's good to try and get something that the whole audience can do, so you might do that at the very beginning. You know, get them all to shout you know "Come on! You can do better than that." And get them all to shout at you and. Or you might give them a voting thing so that everyone can take part at some points and do some votes. So - I think - well that's my - that's what I would say is that it's an interactive - interactivity hands-on, you know, side of things.