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All aboard! Innovative outreach project launched
Thursday 19 January 2012
Famous TV scientist Professor Iain Stewart helped the University launch an innovative Earth science outreach project for young scientists at a Fife school. Iain was on hand to help drive the message home when he kickstarted GeoBus at Buckhaven High School. The new educational project, spearheaded by St Andrews geologists, involves a mobile science unit travelling to secondary schools throughout Scotland.
Named GeoBus, the innovative outreach project was developed by Dr Ruth Robinson of the Department of Earth Sciences at St Andrews and is based on the successful St Andrews ChemBus project that provides outreach to chemistry teachers and pupils in Fife and Tayside. The senior lecturer began raising money for the GeoBus project over two years ago after realising she could help plug a gap in the teaching of geology and Earth science in schools.