The Faculty of Physics of the Universitat de València has opened the registration period to participate in the 11 edition of Experimenta. This fair-contest of experiments and proof of physics and technology is addressed to students of Secondary Education, Bachillerato and middle-level training programmes, who will be able to present their creative proposals until 31 January 2016.
The Fira Experimenta 2016 is open for general public and will be celebrated on 24 April 2016 in the Museum of Science of Valencia. It counts with the collaboration of different institutions and usually it has the support of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
The Physics professor Chantal Ferrer, coordinator of the Fira Concurs Experimenta, claims that one of the main objectives of this call is that contestants as well as visitors of this physics and technology festivity “enjoy those phenomenon which are hidden in everyday things, and, at the same time, encourage young students to be curious and experiment physics and technology with their own hands”. In fact, in order to participate in Experimenta, secondary education students have to develop an experimental project that works with any type of material, which they have to show in the fair, “not only to exhibit it, but they also have to explain it with the aim to prove they understood the theory behind it”, adds Ferrer.
The promotion of scientific and technological culture among youth and the citizenship in general is the key to improve the development and innovation in our territory, according to the coordinator of Experimenta. Chantal Ferrer says that building a project in which they have to put at stake everything they know from the knowledge of different subjects and knowing how to communicate it “is one of the most interesting learning approaches, which, also contributes to promote the proactive attitude towards science and technology of youth and the citizenship”.
The Fira Concurs Experimenta began in 2005, from the celebration of the Year of Physics, with the objective of actively involving the secondary education students. Last year, around 400 students and professors participated, as well as more or less 3,000 visitors. The idea came from the Arquimedes Work Group in Physics, a mixed team of secondary education teachers and university professors with a trajectory of more than 15 years in organising initiatives to improve the understanding of physics, including technology, and paying special attention to the observation of the phenomena and experimenting supported in theory. The Fira Concurs Experimenta is part of a combination of proposals grouped in the Aula Experimenta, which obtained the Physics in Society 2013 in the Ciencia en Acción Contest.
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Last update: 28 de november de 2015 07:00.
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