Photo by Kirill Gordeenko
Code Breaking and Nature’s Patterns
Location:
The Dock Museum, North Road,, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 2PW
Celebrate VE Day with codebreaking challenges, inspired by the codebreaker Alan Turing, and learn about his work on patterns in nature.
Event details
Date
Time
11:00am - 3:00pm
About the event
Alan Turing’s code breaking work saved countless lives by protecting ocean going craft (many of which were built in Barrow!). He was also a biologist, who’s work informed our understanding of how the infinite variety of stripes, spots, scales and feathers are formed in nature. In this session participants will enjoy a range of activities inspired by Turing’s patterns and will get a chance to test their codebreaking skills! We’ll be making morse code bracelets, ceaser cyphers, models of the enigma machine, and more.