This summer the BBC launches its flagship summer show Bang Goes The Theory; a new series with a hands-on approach to science, showing on BBC1. The show will be supported by an online user-generated resource that will act as an interactive platform for participants.

The 10 episode television series, which is co-produced by The Open University, will encourage participants to help build a thorough database of moderated science information that could be included in future series of the TV show.

The site will also feature experiments that will be promoted online in a recipe-style format. Each experiment will come with a video production and include step-by-step instruction to encourage viewers to participate at home.

Participants on the site will also be able to ask science related questions with up to 15 of the best ones picked each week. The chosen questions will be answered via video response by the television show’s host, Dr. Yan Wong. Other presenters on the show are Liz Bonnin, Jem Stansfield and Dallas Campbell.

Web producer, Simon Mackie, hopes that the educational website will not only act as a resource for viewers and science enthusiasts, but will be an interactive space and platform for discussion and idea sharing. “The TV show provides a shop window and then people can get really engaged online,” says Mackie.

The new site follows the launch of BBC Blast, an interactive art installation that visitors were able to control online. The originality and engagement of the BBC is well crafted in this series, including the promotional online vote for the July premiere where participants were asked to decide how to transport Dr. Wong across a 2.5m void - hydropower, magnetism or pulleys and levers. Viewers choice: Magnetism. Good luck Dr. Wong.