Caithness International Science Festival
caithness international science festival event held annually caithness scotland science festival feature talk tour exhibition location around wick thurso rural caithness aimed child family adult held march since festival first held festival aim encourage young people study science caithness international science festival one largest science festival scotland thousand people highland attend festival every year around hundred event held school local countryside workshop evening lecture public open day free charge festival founded professor iain baikie remains chair colin mathieson treasurer patron john thurso lord lieutenant anne dunnet sponsor included scottish executive kp technology kongsberg dounreay subsea speaker included sts astronaut duane carey professor louise dolan lord advocate colin boyd astronomer royal john c brown emeritus professor hugh pennington entrepreneur fraser doherty chief scientific advisor professor anne glover professor martin hendry professor chris speed tania johnston professor chris speed robin grime among many others official website