Molecules out and about

Representation of the
diamond model currently
under construction

Children and the good folk of Uttoxeter are busily working to build the largest model of diamond in the world in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.  Containing 35990 transparent balls each representing an atom of carbon the model will be submitted to receive a Guinness World Record.   The model will be unveiled on Saturday the 2^nd of June by Sarah Elsom, High Sheriff of Staffordshire.  

The model is being constructed by pupils in participating schools, Thomas Alleynes High School, Ryecroft Middle School, Windsor Park Middle School and Oldfields Middle School and other organisations including the Uttoxeter Brownies and St Mary’s Parish Church.  In addition in the final two weeks the good people of Uttoxeter will be invited to build at a stall in the town centre.  A pub crawl with the model is also planned.  Everybody who contributes to the model will be invited to sign their name and at the end of the project the pages will be made into a book the original copy of which will be sent to the Queen. 

Thanks to our sponsors: The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Keele University, Redfern’s Cottage Museum of Uttoxeter Life and Thomas Alleynes High School.