Holiday workshops: Data, Sensors and the Sky (Year 7- 9)

Explore engineering, coding and climate science by building a Micro:bit weather station. Across the UK, thousands of weather stations continuously gather environmental data that helps scientists monitor atmospheric conditions and improve weather forecasting. From local weather predictions to long-term climate research, this information plays a crucial role in understanding the world around us. In this workshop, participants will use a Micro:bit to build a more advanced working weather station, writing real Python code to read data from multiple sensors and output live readings to a screen. Going beyond the basics, participants will explore how professional environmental monitoring systems work and how engineers use data to track and respond to our changing climate. For children who are in Years 7, 8 and 9 this term. This typically corresponds to children aged around 11–14 years old. We reserve the right to refund or deny entry to those who are not in the correct year group. Refunds can only be issued for tickets cancelled at least two weeks (14 calendar days) in advance of the event date. Please note that this supersedes our normal event terms and conditions. Image credit: Ri