A year of school tours begins

Feb 1st saw the year’s start to NAMRIP’s school visit programme, with tours of 6th formers crammed into the ultrasonic lab, in which a temporary exhibit for NAMRIP had been erected. The exhibit showed a selection of pull-ups which were used to illustrate a range of NAMRIP projects. Students also got a rare opportunity to have a go at our Public Engagement prototype for the exhibit that will be launched later this year. This being the ultrasonics lab, the tours ended with a demonstration of StarStream cleaning. The students and teachers enjoyed the visit, but the need for a proper NAMRIP exhibition space that could highlight a range of demonstrations was very evident – it would bring the potential for a lot of hands-on involvement for visitors, to better enable the two-way dialogues on Anti-Microbial Resistance (e.g. attitudes to a hypothetical scenario when a GP refuses to prescribe antibiotics to a child when it might shorten time off school by 2 days), and the reinforcement of simple messages, such as the importance of handwashing.