It’s been two weeks since my latest project, Ask a Scientist, was released into the wild and so I thought it was about time to at least mention it here.

The site sees young people (primarily between the ages of 14 – 25) engage and interact with science on a new level – by providing them with a platform to ask any science related question they want – and get real scientists from around the UK to provide the answers, stimulate discussions and generally teach and inspire young people to make science their career.

After months of planning, designing and negotiating with various science organisations and scientists, the site finally went live on July 15th – with the aim to expand and enhance the content of the site over time. I’d also like to thank all the support I’ve had so far from many, many people who without them, the site wouldn’t be anywhere close to completion – that includes my friends and family, colleagues at NPL, and various people from a whole host of other organisations including STEMNET, Kingston University, the MET Office and the NHS to name a few!

Go check it out – let me know what you think – and by all means get involved and help improve and expand what the site currently has to offer!

www.askascientist.co.uk

The site also makes use of various social networks – you can follow it on Twitter at @askascientist – and, if you tweet questions they will automatically be added to the question repository. There’s also a Facebook fan page and a Youtube page for the videos.

It’s Been a While

Losing Track

Yesterday saw the National Physical Laboratory‘s (NPL) annual Water Rocket Challenge take place in Teddington, which saw school teams during the day, and adult teams in the evening, fill the skies with high pressure water rockets. Below are a selection of photos which I took throughout the day.

You can view more at NPL’s Flickr set.

A photo which I took while working at my day job at NPL, for their spin off company Argento Diagnostics the other week, has been published in the Financial Times, alongside a story about Argento in the Digital Business supplement.

See a scan of the story below from the paper, or you can read the story online.

Working in collaboration with Cherry Designs, last week saw the relaunch of the new website for photographer Andrew Brookes. I was responsible of turning the new site design into a fully working site, coded in XHTML, PHP and jQuery.

Andrew Brookes is an award winning photographer, and his new site features a javascript gallery to showcase his work, as well as having sections to provide contact details and more information about him for potential clients to make contact with him.

The site is also optimised for search engines to increase it’s position in Google and other search providers.

www.abstill.co.uk