Lorna Bennet

Chartered Senior Engineer, Sustainability | STEM Ambassador | WES Scotland Coordinator | #WATCTop100 Rising Star 2019 | #IETYWE 2018 WES Prize | Own opinions

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Thanks @Russell_Arnott from @incredoceans, absolutely fantastic presentation @OrkSciFest!
We all breath plankton farts
Best plankton: Mesodinium Rubrum looks like🌻can jump 260x its size
Sharks: doctors of the ocean
Sperm whales: so loud they talk to each other anywhere on the 🌎

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Thank you @JamieBGall for a fascinating, funny & educational session @OrkSciFest about the elements of the periodic table. Dragons love gold as a means of curing their heartburn🐉🔥
Tellurium poisoning makes you reek of garlic & it was discovered in Romania! 🧛‍♂️🧄
#STEM #Chemistry

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Another fantastic event @OrkSciFest with head gardener @GCWalledGarden, Ed Bollom, hosting a workshop to discuss the tips & challenges of growing your own fruit & veg, from planning your plot, pest control, sowing, growing & harvesting fresh produce 🫛🥕🌽🍅🫑🥒
#Sustainability

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Thank you to Ian Taylor from @TWPScot for an interesting presentation about #OffshoreWind & the Ayre project in #Orkney @OrkSciFest
"Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations"
#STEM #Sustainability #Innovation

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Fascinating event @OrkSciFest about the #Constellation Ursa Minor with composer @stuart_macrae & Astronomer @AMWeijmans beautifully combining #Music & #Science to discuss the power & inspiration of the #Stars with special guest host @jojo_durrant ✨🔭🌌
#STEM #Astronomy #Science

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

@DrAllan12 @jojo_durrant @OrkSciFest It was an absolutely fantastic show and we really hope to see you back with us again at future @OrkSciFest evens! 🪄🐇🔮🔬🧪

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

The beautiful Bicentennial Quilt, created in 2020, every square hand-crafted, designed & stitched by 70 volunteers celebrating the 200th anniversary of the @RoyalAstroSo is on display in @Saint_Magnus Cathedral until Wed 11th Sep as part of the @OrkSciFest.
#STEM #Astronomy ✨🔭

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Huge thank you to @DrAllan12 for an absolutely incredible show @OrkSciFest. Introduced by a special guest host @jojo_durrant, he wowed the audience with illusions, magic & science. Students at Dornoch Academy are so lucky to have such a passionate & enthusiastic teacher! #STEM

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Fascinating talk from head gardener, Ed Bollom, about the restoration & challenges of creating 1 of the UK's largest kitchen gardens & growing food in the North of Scotland @GCWalledGarden. Truly #Inspirational & stunning results growing flowers, veg, fruit & botanicals for gin!

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Fantastic presentation from Professor @martin_astro, Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal @UofGlasgow exploring the detection of spacetime ripples from colliding celestial bodies bringing exciting insights to cosmic origins of precious metals, Gold in the #Stars ✨
#STEM #Cosmology

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Absolutely incredible event @OrkSciFest Swimming with Gravitational Waves. Fully immersed in the music of the universe through combining the #Scientific research @UofGlasgow and #Artistic imaginings of audiovisual artist Leon Trimble in this ‘Gravity Synth’ #Collaboration
#STEM

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Excited to be on our way back to the Orkney International Science Festival for an incredible week of STEM presentations, workshops and activities for all the family! Thanks to @NLFerries for providing discounted tickets for staff and volunteers travelling to support the festival.

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Fantastic Peter Pan @Bamburgh_Castle on a VERY wet & windy Saturday evening by tenacious & stoic actors @Immersion_Thtr.
Battling through awful weather, they made the audience laugh & sing regardless! Incredibly impressive, multiple costume changes & undampened enthusiasm🧚‍♂️🐊☠️⚓

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! #INWED24 celebrates women working in #Engineering, so it was great to catch up with @WES1919 Scotland members @SummerleeMuseum 🚂 today to chat, offer support & remind ourselves how life has been #EnhancedByEngineering.
@INWED1919 🥳

[Orkney Science Fest @OrkSciFest]

Great news for the Festival, some of the UK’s top Maths communicators will visit Orkney schools as the result of a funding boost made by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences @ICMS_Edinburgh Public Engagement fund. https://t.co/XaXS04C217
Image Credit: Hana Ayoob

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

@profeenescocia @ORECatapult @Stoneywood_1 @EducationScot Thank you for inviting me. It was a pleasure to speak to such an engaged and enthusiastic class. Fantastic questions and answers all round!

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Delighted to be part of the assessor panel @EDTScotland @IndustrialCadet Bronze Project North hub graduation today @NatSubseaCentre. Huge congratulations to all the teams for their fantastic projects & excellent presentations! 🏆🏅
#IndustrialCadets #STEM @ScotSTEMAmb @TheEDTUK

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Fantastic, sunny and BUSY day @FalkirkLandC STEM@TheHelix family fun day for #FalkirkScienceFestival! #EngineersOfTheFuture
#STEM
@HelixFalkirk @STEMAmbassadors

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Huge thanks to @FlotationEnergy for a fantastic opportunity to visit Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen this afternoon with colleagues from @ORECatapult, @netzero_tc & @decomcentre
Also, thankful for a calm day!
#FloatingWind #NetZero #EnergyTransition #WindEnergy

[Lorna Bennet @LorryBonnets]

Super excited for the North East celebration of STEM today with @YESC_Scotland and the #ClimateSmarter project. We're all set up and ready to #inspire some #EngineersOfTheFuture ⭐