A year of school tours begins
![Prototype Public Engagement exhibit](/assets/imported/transforms/site/news-release/PageThumbnail/D4418FAD4D9E4A9B9C3D6711AED9402D/GOPR8126.JPG_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE.jpg)
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.
![Maryam Malakoutikhah demonstrates StarStream](/assets/imported/transforms/content-block/CB_RImg/E8436D2BD80B4836A382A97F7CF85FA3/IMG_0168.JPG_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE.jpg)
![6 NAMRIP project pull-up banners](/assets/imported/transforms/content-block/CB_RImg/AD86BAA746794629A08AF9CCE485143B/GOPR8135.JPG_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE.jpg)
![Kit Harling explains the research in NAMRIP](/assets/imported/transforms/content-block/CB_RImg/CB725DFE2DFB412E8248EA927065EB15/IMG_0180.jpg_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE.jpg)