24th-27th of February 2026
Come and be part of Linlithgow’s first Science Fair.
Are you a school kid and have a question you’ve always wanted to test?
Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Robotics, Space, Environmental?
What to Expect
Student’s Experiments on display from schools all around Linlithgow
VR laboratory experience- get to do science without any experience without the danger of blowing anything up!
Ozo bots to program and play with
Robot demonstration from the Edinburgh Robotarium
Hands on chemistry experiments and demonstrations
Electronics demonstrations and kit to play with
❋Interactive Science
❋Fun
❋demonstrations
❋Displays
❋Achievement
❋Excitement and Inspiration
❋Career advice - where can STEM take you?
Program 24th of February and 25th of FebruaryThe Low Port Centre, EH49 7HZ
Main Auditorium. Open from 8am.
P4-P7 Students from Linlithgow schools
Students who have registered to do a science experiment and present it, will need to come in the morning to set it up on the display tables. When they come in to visit with their schools at the chosen times, they will be asked to give a short presentation of their experiment and findings to a small group of judges.
The rest of their school visit time, they can watch the demonstrations and enjoy the other kid’s work.
At the end of the two days (>3:30pm on the 25th) we would ask that the students come and pick up their presentations and take them back home- we’re sure you’d like to hang onto them and admire them some more!
The judges will convene after the 2 days of Science Fair and the winners will be announced and given their prizes at their school assemblies in the following weeks.
Program 26th and 27th of FebruaryLinlithgow Academy EH49 6EH
Main Hall, next to reception
S1- S7 Students from Linlithgow Academy
Students who have registered to do a science experiment and present it, will need to come in the morning to set it up on the display tables. When they come in to visit at the chosen times, they will be asked to give a short presentation of their experiment and findings to a small group of judges.
The rest of their school visit time, they can watch the demonstrations and enjoy the other pupil’s work.
At the end of the 1.5 days (>12:30pm on the 27th) we would ask that the students come and pick up their presentations and take them back home- we’re sure you’d like to hang onto them and admire them some more!.
The judges will convene after the 2 days of Science Fair and the winners will be announced and given their prizes at their school assemblies in the following weeks.
Video Credit: https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed/shorts the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
“The only difference between messing about and Science is writing it down”
Adam Savage from the Myth Busters (PG version)
What is a hypothesis?
You might have a question that you’re interested in- but you need to form that into something you can test- that is a hypothesis and a prediction
For example a question might be: “I wonder how many birds visit my backyard?”
Your prediction might then be “many birds of different species visit my back yard at different times”
Your Hypothesis might then be: “Birds of different Species and number visit my backyard over a week”
Or your question might be “I wonder if I can make a new type of propeller that moves air more effectively that the ones used today in aviation?”
Your Hypothesis might then be: “The shape and angle of 2 spanned propellers affects the volume of air moved at 200rpm”
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/topic-selection-wizard/background-info
How It Works