SUTHERLAND Shire children teamed up to build a working Lego model of TAIPAN at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).
TAIPAN is ANSTO's Triple-Axis Spectrometer, which uses neutron scattering to study movements between atoms and interactions between magnetic moments.
Pupils helped construct a model that is 10th the size of the real TAIPAN instrument.
Taipan is part of the OPAL research reactor, one of Australia's most important pieces of scientific infrastructure.
The model will be programmable using software that reflects and detects light from one end of the instrument to the other, helping children to understand how the real instrument works.
Instrument scientists were also on hand to help the young scientists in their construction.
