CDT students at Imperial Festival 2016

by Kate Hobson

Playing with brainwaves exhibit

Visitors to the Imperial Festival playing computer games with brainwaves

CDT Neurotechnology students presented two successful exhibits at the Imperial Festival in May

Students from the CDT in Neurotechnology for Life and Health experienced the energy of the Imperial Festival in May, running two successful exhibits over the two days of the festival.

Brains of Brawn explained how the brain and body controls muscles and allowed visitors to solve an interactive puzzle to make a muscle move.

Visitors could also have a go at making their own nerve cell out of pipe cleaners (which was very popoular with the younger visitors!) and even hear the sound of their own muscles moving.

Playing with Brainwaves challenged visitors to control a specially designed computer game, using their "brainwaves" via an EEG headset. 

Festival-goers could also build a brain model and colour and make their own "brain-hat" depicting the parts of the brain and their functions.

Congratulations to the CDT students for all their hard work, which paid off in two great stands.

Build-a-brain: a young visitor completes the brain modelPreparations: making a muscleThe finished brain-hat!Making a neuronBrains of brawn: the muscle model in actionBuilding the muscle componentsNeural net: the completed neurons!Why do we need the brain?Visitor comments

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Kate Hobson

Department of Bioengineering