Picture, if you will, the Think Physics office. A group of lackadaisical academics loafing around, leafing through the occasional paper while enjoying copiously long tea breaks, interrupted only by the occasional health & safety training course. That’s how we work, right?
Truth is, we seem a bit busier than that. Here are the raw numbers for our 2015–16 academic year:
Partner Primary Schools
Partner Secondary Schools
Local Authorities
Total number of interactions
People seen
Scaled to number of secondary pupils reached
We saw a lot of people last year.
Of course, the headline figure includes a lot of the same students twice. That’s the whole point of Think Physics – we’re all about being a regular presence in the lives of children and their families and teachers, with each intervention building on those before it.
We could count things like the amount of masking tape we’ve got through (hint: start counting in kilometres), the amount of cardboard (hectares), or the surprising number of plastic teaspoons (we’re awaiting delivery of another 1,200, and no, none of them are going in our tea). But that huge red number above is the important one.
More than 30,000 interactions.
Gosh.
I’ll put the kettle on. Reckon we could do with a cuppa.
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