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Be a spherical cow

“Be a spherical cow: the phenomena and its explanation in science”

All the students of the VLC-Campus also participate in a joint session. From 2011 to 2013, with “Be a Spherical Cow: Phenomena and their explanation in Science”, enjoy a brief scientific show with motivational experiments, after which they put on different demonstrations and explained them to the other partners, having all the necessary material and an explanatory sheet of the assembly that is going to be carry out. In 2014, in the session “Physics with your smartphone”, physical phenomena have been observed with the help of smartphones and free apps that allow for measuring the acceleration of the magnetic field and the intensity of light.

Finally, in the Friday evenings of each week, the students carry out a brief presentation of the work developed in each project, by using videos and photographies that they themselves have recorded throughout all the sessions to illustrate it. In this closing session they also carry out a critical analysis by emphasising the aspects they consider to be the most significant of their participating experience in the Campus.

Since this initiative was first presented in 2011, the valuation of the participating students in this physics projects has been always positive.