For the fourth consecutive year, the  Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport started in 2014 the Scientific Summer Campus. As is being done uninterruptedly since 2011, the project “Un viaje fantástico con los pies en la física”  participates again in this initiative addressed to students of the last course of secondary education and the first course of higher education. It has been selected together with other three projects of chemistry, medical physics and mathematics as a part of the offer of the International Campus VLC-Campus of the Universitat de València and the Universitat Politècnica de València.

The idea of a “Un viaje fantástico con los pies en la física” appears from the experience of our Work Group within the development of different initiatives addressed to secondary education students. The project poses to guide young participants through new Physical phenomena and experiments, with a proposal that highlights their fascinating character and their importance and actuality, and where the experimentation and quantification made by the students prevail. For these reasons, a sequence where the promotion of comprehension of what is presented will be followed, including explanations adapted to their academic level and encouraging relations between other sciences and the technology that surrounds us.

The Campus takes place during the month of July and every week participate four groups, composed by 7 or 8 student of of the last course of secondary education or the first course of higher education. The first day starts with the welcoming session and the general explanation of the Campus (every Monday) and the las day (Friday evening) each group realises a short presentation of the obtained results and an analysis of their participation experience in the Campus. Besides these common sessions for all the projects of the VLC-Campus, each students group realises four specific sessions of their project that take place from Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 to 13:30 and one cross-cutting session with all the Campus participants.

News programme - Valencian Community - 04/07/14 (minutes 0:54-1:14 and 9:30-11:36)