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The project started in York schools where volunteers were proactive in encouraging school children to open their eyes to the artistic beauty within science.
The university’s Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) started off the scheme taking scientific equipment such as microscopes into classrooms, aiming to get children to think artistically about Science.
The York-based endeavour progressed into the Hidden Worlds project in Tanzania.
A large sugar plantation owner Illovo Sugar suggested that the Science-come-Art projects within Britain may be beneficial to children on such plantations.
Simple equipment such as magnifying glasses are at first introduced to the Tanzanian school children as they are unfamiliar with technical scientific instruments.
Dr Caroline Calvert, CNAP Outreach Manager, said: "We do our best to encourage creativity. Once the children have had the close-up view of a leaf or an insect, the volunteers get them to paint, draw or model what they saw.”
The project is dependent on volunteers, most of which come from Gap Activity Projects. This UK charity arranges placements which prove highly popular.
A volunteer in one of the five Tanzanian schools involved said: “It’s an amazing feeling knowing that you can make such a difference just by smiling and giving someone a little of your time.”
A free exhibition about the project with photographs, children's artwork and other resources will be on show at the York Festival of Science in York Mansion House every weekday from 12 - 2pm.
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