RESIDENTS in Whitehaven have been given a glimpse of the future with a show exploring the newest science and technology.
The annual school science show at St Nicholas' Gardens was given a boost this year with the introduction of two new tents, showing a planetarium and a range of interesting technology like drones and SPOT the robot dog.
Two shows were held across the day for schools with CBBC's own Stefan Gates performing his popular Gastronauts show.
Other companies like iSH and Sellafield were on hand to showcase to the public their latest work.
Miranda Kirschal of iSH said: "We're here to inspire the children and the rest of the community to think about the space sector and how space is close to the nuclear industry in terms of the skills that you need.
"In West Cumbria, we're the best in the world at engineering and we have the best experts so we're saying look at other sectors as well that are adjacent to the nuclear industry - and think about a future where you do both."
Calvin Smye, equipment engineer for Sellafield, said: "We're demonstrating some of the remote capabilities we use on the Sellafield site and how we're using new innovative solutions which can be commercially bought off the shelf to deliver work in the way we have done previously."
The managing director of CoLab Engineering said: "We're showcasing some new renewable technology which is a compact hydro-energy device and we've code-named it Hydro-Pulse, the basic premise is we can turn any form of flowing water into electrical energy and harness that in some kind of storage system.
"But the novelty and the design is that it is a brand new turbine, it's never been done before it's really efficient at converting linear energy into rotational energy."
Emma Dunnen, a graduate working at the UAV team at Sellafield, said: "The simulation gives people a really good idea of the things we do and the software we have on at the moment simulates the work that we'll do at Sellafield site.
"So what we have on now is Scavenger Hunt and what we'll do at Sellafield is a lot of inspection work and so this just simulates that control and taking photos."
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