{"id":1076,"date":"2020-02-24T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/?page_id=1076"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:30:32","slug":"swindon-science-festival-21-22-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/blog\/swindon-science-festival-21-22-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog &#8211; Swindon Science Festival  21-22 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceswindon.com\/\">Swindon Science Festival<\/a> on 22 and 22 February 2020!\u00a0 We <span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">were impressed with the level of interest and knowledge of the people who visited our stand &#8211; some 350 in total!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>312 visitors took the opportunity to vote for the top three <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/our-research\/nfm-measures-2\/\">NFM measures<\/a> they felt would be most effective.\u00a0 Voting tokens were colour coded to see how views compared between adult visitors (blue); children visitors (purple) and exhibitors of other stands (green).\u00a0 You can see the results summarised in the graph below (each person had three votes).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1134\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Voting-boxes-Swindon-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Voting-boxes-Swindon-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Voting-boxes-Swindon-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Voting-boxes-Swindon-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Voting-boxes-Swindon.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1079\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Swindon-Science-Fest-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Swindon-Science-Fest-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Swindon-Science-Fest-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Swindon-Science-Fest-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Swindon-Science-Fest-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/Unorganized\/Swindon-Science-Fest-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NFM researchers\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">Maleki Badjana (left) and <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">Will Maslanka at our stand in Swindon\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were at Swindon Science Festival on 22 and 22 February 2020!\u00a0 We were impressed with the level of interest and knowledge of the people who visited our stand &#8211;&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#110;&#101;&#114;&#99;&#45;&#110;&#102;&#109;&#47;&#98;&#108;&#111;&#103;&#47;&#115;&#119;&#105;&#110;&#100;&#111;&#110;&#45;&#115;&#99;&#105;&#101;&#110;&#99;&#101;&#45;&#102;&#101;&#115;&#116;&#105;&#118;&#97;&#108;&#45;&#50;&#49;&#45;&#50;&#50;&#45;&#102;&#101;&#98;&#114;&#117;&#97;&#114;&#121;&#45;&#50;&#48;&#50;&#48;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"parent":671,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1076","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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