Gow’s Becky hopes to Guide girls to science future

A SCIENCE challenge devised by a Lesmahagow student will test Guides hoping to achieve a new badge with a weather-related theme.
Experimenting...for Guides weather badge designed by Lesmahagow student (submitted picture)Experimenting...for Guides weather badge designed by Lesmahagow student (submitted picture)
Experimenting...for Guides weather badge designed by Lesmahagow student (submitted picture)

To earn the badge – called Go For It! Weather – Guides will complete a number of practical activities designed by Rebecca Coats, a student in the University’s School of GeoSciences.

Guides will study the many features of weather – including clouds, air pressure and wind – by constructing their own measuring instruments and recording their observations.

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Hands-on tasks include making and using a thermometer, a rain gauge and a device to calculate wind speed.

Fourth year student Becky designed the challenge while volunteering with a Guide group in Edinburgh as part of a project run by the School of GeoSciences.

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