The fair-contest is expected to involve 440 people, including students and teachers. Of free access, it hosts 99 stands, with different experimental projects built by ESO, baccalaureate and training cycles students, with the help of the teachers who tutor them. The public may ask about the operation of any of the experiments. Simultaneously, girls and boys will be able to approach the Fisicalandia workshop, where simple demonstrations based on natural phenomena will be built and can be understood.

Experimenta, in addition to the fair, includes a contest for the best projects and the most voted project by the public. A jury made up of university and high school professors will assess the good functioning, the correct understanding of the works and the clarity of the explanations. There will be five prizes: four of €300 for each category of the contest according to the cycle of studies, and one of €200 to the most voted project by the visiting public of the fair, as well as different honourable mentions.

The coordinator of Experimenta is Chantal Ferrer Roca, professor of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism at the University of Valencia, and the organising committee is also formed by Jordi Vidal Perona, Miguel V. Andrés Bou and Amparo Pons Martí. “We also have a large number of voluntary collaborators of the faculty (90) and 38 members of the jury are University of Valencia and secondary education professors”, Ferrer says. Centres from Valencia and the Valencian Community, and even from Russia (Moscow), 3 Chinese groups (Macao) and one from Pretoria (South Africa) participate in it.

In the explanations, students (individually or in groups of up to four people) have to highlight the relationships between natural phenomena and technological applications, that is, between physics and technology. The works are classified in two types: the demonstrations and experiments of physics and, on the other hand, the projects of technological applications.

The event will end at 1:00 pm, and at 1:30 pm the awards ceremony will begin, which will take place at the Santiago Grisolía Auditorium of the Prince Felipe Museum, preceded by a brief scientific show. The winning projects and the ones with honourable mentions will participate in a later exhibition, open to the public, in which videos of the students explaining the projects will be recorded. Both the videos and the descriptive documents will be accessible online as teaching and outreach materials.

Experimenta cuenta con el apoyo y patrocinio de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades; la Conselleria de Economía Sostenible, Sectores Productivos, Comercio y Trabajo, el Instituto de Física Corpuscular, el Ayuntamiento de València, la Real Sociedad Española de Física, Caja Popular, la Unidad de Cultura Científica de la Universitat de València, la Delegación para la Incorporación a la Universitat o la Unitat d’Igualtat de la institución académica, entre otras instituciones. Experimenta has the support and sponsorship of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; the Ministry of Sustainable Economy, Productive Sectors, Trade and Labour, the Corpuscular Physics Institute, the Valencia City Council, the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, Caja Popular, the Scientific Culture Unit of the University of Valencia, the Delegation for Incorporation to the University or the Equality Unit of that academic institution, among other institutions.

More information on Experimenta: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/experimenta/es/experimenta-1285927554788.html

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