I'd just like to say that I found the efficiency and helpfulness of the BAYS
(British Association Youth Section) organisers as excellent as ever this
time, in difficult circumstances.
Despite comments in PSCI-COM indicating low attendance figures for some
Festival of Science events, I understand that getting on for 6,000 people
were pre-booked for the one-day BAYS event on the 15th. I know that 1,342
seats were booked for Exploding Custard, sold-out weeks earlier. Somehow,
the majority of my booked audience arrived, despite the height of the petrol
crisis.
BAYS events seem to be so popular that they scarcely need extra publicity.
The only mention of BAYS Day in the Creating Sparks programme is a
two-column-inch, text-only item hidden away on page 59. It is far better
known to the general public than to participants in the more formal Festival
of Science events.
This year and last, space constraints have squeezed BAYS out of the main
Festival of Science programme, effectively creating a separate event. Both
have been the losers for this. Each has an equal need to be associated with
the other.
I'm looking forward to next year in Glasgow already.
Ian Russell * [log in to unmask]
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