A MALVERN student returned to her home town to help enthuse a new generation of children with science.

The Cambridge Hands-on Science (ChaOS) show is touring the country and came to the Lyttelton Rooms in Great Malvern last Thursday.

Children could take a spin on a gyroscope, meet a skeleton or build a suspension bridge at the show, run by Cambridge University students.

Malvern's Sarah Crisp, who is in her fourth year of a medical degree at the university, is one of the 15 students running the two-week tour.

She said: "It's gone really well so far. We make and demonstrate all the models and the children really seem to be enjoying it.

"Everyone seems to like Boris the skeleton."

ChaOS aims to bring out the fun aspects of science and get children interested in the subject to show there is more to it than 'white coats and laboratories'.

Thirty-five kiwi fruits, eight kilograms of cornflower and five litres of dry ice have been used so far in a number of exciting, hands-on displays and exhibits.

The students were inspired to design and build the displays after a trip to a science museum and each brought specialist knowledge from their different degrees to the project.

It is the second year the tour, which takes the group from Lincolnshire to Devon, has taken place and Sarah says it will continue next year.

She said: "It's a really important thing to do, as there isn't anything similar for children and we all really enjoy it.

"We cater for all age groups and can explain the exhibits in different ways, so they are understandable to a four year old or an 18 year old."