The Museo Príncipe Felipe in Valencia hosts this Sunday, April 2, the 12th Fair-Contest of Physics and Technology demos and experiments. The event, organised by the Faculty of Physics of the Universitat de València, aims not only to bring the physics and technology closer to secondary education students and citizens in general, but also to do it in a creative and participative way. The event includes the fair-contest (from 10:00 to 13:00h) and the award event (from 13:30h). The latter will be presented by the physicist and meteorologist from RTVE Mònica López.
The fair-contest will be developed between 10:00 and 13:00h, and it is planned that there will participate more than 350 students and teachers. It has free access and holds a demonstration of more than 75 experimental projects created by secondary, high school and Vocational Training Courses students with the help of their tutors. Visitors could ask for the working of these projects. Children could take part in the workshop ‘Fisicalandia’, where basic and easy demonstrations based in natural phenomena will be carried out.
‘Experimenta’ includes a contest to the best projects and to the most voted by the audience. A jury formed by university professors and high school teachers will value the good functioning, the right comprehension of the work and the clarity of the students’ explanations. There will be five prizes: four of 300 euros for each category of the contests according to the cycle of studies, and one of 200 to the most voted project.
The person responsible of ‘Experimenta’ is Chantal Ferrer, professor of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism of the Universitat de València. The organizing committee is also made up by Miguel V. Andrés Bou, Amparo Pons Martí and Jordi Vidal Perona. The institutions Friedrich Schiller Gymnasium (Marbach, Germany) and Gimnasio 1517 (Moscou, Rusia) will also participate in the event. ‘We have a great amount of volunteer collaborators from the Faculty (96 including supervisors) and 36 professors who will act as the jury’, affirms Chantal Ferrer.
In the explanations, the students (alone or in groups of four people maximum) have to spotlight the relationships between natural phenomena and technological applications, that is, between physics and technology.The works are classified in two groups: the demonstrations and experiments of Physics, and on the other hand, technology application projects.
The event will finish at 13:00h and then, at 13:30h will start the award ceremony. This ceremony will take place in the auditorium Santiago Grisolía in the Science Museum of Valencia. Awarded projects or those with a mention will participate in a later exhibition, open to public, where videos of the students explaining their projects will be filmed. These videos and descriptive documents will be accessible online as teaching and informational materials.
‘Experimenta’ has the support and the patronage of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the Chair for Scientific Dissemination of the Universitat de València, the Institute of Corpuscular Physics, the Valencian local Government, Caixa Popular, the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, the Delegation for University Integration, or the Equality Unit of the academic institution, among others.
More information about the fair-contest Experimenta:
http://www.uv.es/experimenta
Last update: 30 de march de 2017 09:20.
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