A total of 30 students will fill the laboratories of Universitat de València this week. The teaching staff which will organize various courses at UV, presented the students with the programme which will provide them with knowledge and will help them cooperate and share experiences.
A total of 120 students from all over the country will participate, until the end of this month, in the Scientific Campus summer programme which takes place at VLC/CAMPUS Counting this one, there have been six editions of the programme in which VLC/CAMPUS have been chosen to be the organisers.
Every week, 30 students of the 4th year of ESO (Secondary School) and the first year of bachillerato (high school) who have obtained an average mark of between 9.5 and 10 in their academic achievement, get to have this unique experience. In the mornings, the students work on a scientific project in small groups in laboratories of both universities. While in the afternoons, everyone takes part in cross-disciplinary workshops (about innovation and creativity, smartphone applications) and visit facilities of scientific parks in both Universitat de València and UPV. Finally, on Friday, they have an evaluation session in which every groups shows the progress made during the week.
In this edition, four projects that were carried out in 2015 are making a comeback, as they received positive reaction from the students. They are: “Mathematics, cryptography and codes. How to use math to understand one another”; “Technology and medical physics. Innovation at the service of medicine”, “Chemistry, a boundless source of solutions for health and wellbeing” and “An amazing journey down to Physics”.
Apart from theory, which is inevitable, the students carry out experiments, solve exercises and play games: decipher cryptographic codes with private and public keys, make paracetamol, learn secrets about DNI through control characters, learn about the double life of an electron, draw molecules with computer software, remotely calculate temperatures using thermographic cameras...
This program is financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport; the Ministry of Economy and Competition and The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology as organizers and Obra Social la Caixa as a sponsor of the programme.
Last update: 11 de july de 2016 15:26.
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