In March 2003 I fulfilled a long-held ambition when I gave a talk with demonstrations and audience participation based on my children’s popular science book The Way Science Works for patients at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London. Ever since I was a patient at GOSH as a child I had wanted to return and give something back to the hospital that helped me so much.
The experiments I demonstrated included making a compass from everyday items, and creating an optical illusion from a single sheet of paper. As you can see from the pictures below, the schoolroom at GOSH was full of eager volunteers keen to help me with these experiments!
![Image 1 of Sharon Ann giving a science demonstration at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in 2003](http://www.sharonannholgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/gosh1.jpg)
![Some of the children who attended Sharon Ann's talk at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2003](http://www.sharonannholgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/gosh2.jpg)
![Sharon Ann demonstrating one of the science experiments during her talk at Great Ormond Street children's hospital in 2003](http://www.sharonannholgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/gosh3.jpg)
Press coverage included a TV news feature by British Satellite News who filmed the talk and interviewed me about The Way Science Works (click below to watch the footage), a news item on the Institute of Physics website and a story on page 14 of ‘Actualités Scientifiques au Royamme-Uni’ by the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy.
I also gave this talk at the launch of The Way Science Works at the Science Museum in London in April 2002.
![Sharon Ann signing books at the Science Museum in London](http://www.sharonannholgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SharonatSciMus80percent.jpg)