On 25th & 26th February QECDT students from cohorts 7 & 8 took part in the 'Festival of Tomorrow', a science fair sponsored by UKRI in Swindon.

On the stand the students demonstrated how photonic chips are used to guide light around specific paths with a large-scale puzzle for children to solve. Then they showed just how small these chips really are by using a portable microscope to look at chips donated from previous QET labs experiments. Finally, the festival attendees were shown how quantum bits can store many classical states at once, with the aid of 'PiQuantum' - a game invented by students from cohort 4.

Their stand gained a lot of interest, and the students did a fabulous job answering all the questions. Everyone seemed to enjoy their outreach experience a lot as well as imparting a lot of knowledge (and stickers) to the receptive public.