Be Curious 2025

Saturday 17 May 2025

What is it like being a laser scientist?

Be Curious is the University of Leeds’s annual family open day. Led by postdoctoral researcher Thomas Gill, the TeraCom team ran a series of activities designed to explore what it is like to be a laser scientist.

  • Dress up as a laser scientist
  • Stick the object on the electromagnetic spectrum
  • Laser maze game
  • Laser comms demo
  • Live spectroscopy system

This year was busier than ever! Over 400 people engaged with our laser-based activities throughout the day.

Children wearing lab coats trying to solve the laser maze.
Child wearing a lab coat working on our laser comms demo.
Adults trying to solve the laser maze.
People wearing lab coats engaging with the pin the object on the electromagnetic spectrum demo.
Thomas showing children the laser comms demo.
Children engaging with the spectroscopy demo.
Nathan showing a child the laser comms demo.
General scene of the room. Lots of people wearing lab coats engaging with our demos.
TeraCom team of students, postdocs, and researchers, wearing TeraCom t-shits, at the end of a very busy day.