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Interview with Anna Sheridan: Education Director

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BS: Can you say a little bit about the differences between being at school and being at Techniquest.

AS: Yeah. I think - ( ) the fact that the - there will be a different presenter who has got you know. I have to say that I really think that every single time - I mean I've been here 8 years and I've done loads of shows and workshops in that time and there's only been once that I've actually thought "Gosh. This has been a real struggle for an hour" you know while I've tried to take someone through a workshop and - mainly because an important thing about them coming to Techniquest for schools is that they behave better, cause they're somewhere different and there's someone else doing the show or workshop whatever to the teachers. That's one thing. The other thing is - that - it's completely different to the way they're taught at school.

So it's not just about it being a different person but it's a different focus on you know - the fact it's interactive or - yeah - or you know talking about for post 16 audiences at the moment we're doing debates or discussions or whatever and people have to present back their thoughts and their feelings. And maybe that's something that they don't do at school for post 16 - in biology. They probably do it in general studies or whatever. And the other thing is that we often have more than one presenter it - certainly in the lab in the workshop. So there's - you know the ratio of students to teachers is changed, is altered because of that. That's probably mainly - the main things.