This week is Clean Coasts Week, a Keep Wales Tidy initiative sponsored by McDonalds so we took a group of students from MITEC at Pembrokeshire College to clean up West Dale.     The team from MITEC collected over 6 bag fulls of rubbish which were mostly filled with plastic bottles tops and fishing rope/nets.  Check [...]

A team of select pupils from Ysgol Dewi Sant spent the morning at Pembrokeshire College where they took part in a series of activities led by Tim Brew – Energy in Education.  The pupils then split into small groups and were given the task of designing blades for a wind turbine.  A competition took place [...]

We have a great new project for secondary pupils working along side Infinergy a wind farm development company and Tim Brew from Energy In Education.  

Pupils from Fenton, Haverfordwest VC and St Marks primary schools came to Pembrokeshire College to sample all of the different courses available.  The Darwin team helped to deliver some of the science tasters which involved experiments using different types of energy.  The children used heat to create light energy, sound to create electrical energy, heat to [...]

Pembrokeshire College students on the Army Preparatory course accompanied us to Nolton Haven on Monday 4th March to help clear up some of the litter.  After a morning on the beach the students had a presentation from Marten on plastics and the hazards of marine litter.  

Dr Ed Pope from Swansea University came to Pembrokeshire College to deliver a lecture to GCSE and A level students on Ocean Acidification (OA).  150 students from across Pembrokeshire attended and learnt the basics of OA and they were informed on Swansea’s current research into the subject.     In the evening the same lecture [...]

Dr James Logan from Channel 4′s Embarrassing Bodies spent the day with us at Pembrokeshire College for our Science Aglow event.  Roch, Johnston and Pembroke Dock community school all came along and took part in workshops held by the Eco Centre Wales, Marine Biological Association and Silent World To You.

Sunday 24th June – Manor House Wildlife Park We spent the day at MHWP with our portable ‘ponds.’  We collected critters from the ponds at MHWP and put them into our mini ponds.  The children in the park all had the opportunity to get involved and try some pond dipping with our hand nets. They [...]