SUPER SCIENTIST

Turkish team making dissemination of the project at their school!!

Our last day working, but not only!! We have had our final party. We have recieved our certificates, we deserve it! We have worked a lot!! Then, we have had dinner, a fantastic raclette!!! Thank you very much!!! It was delicious!!

Activities Students Presentation

We have started at the school to work on the presentation about the topic of the meeting. We have filled some surveys, just to know what we have learnt about essential tech. Then, we have visited the ONU sede at Genève. Very interesting! We have learnt about how this organization works. work with  After that, we have had free time with our partners. We have had a very good time with them!!

Here you have the Survey about the work of the 4th Meeting!! Click on the image to access the report 

On Wednesday morning we had to get up very early because we had to be at school at 7:30 to travel to Lausanne to the Essential Tech Laboratory at EPFL. When we arrived we had an introduction of the EPFL and a discussion on the essential tech  film previously seen at school. After that the students were separated in 4 groups to make 4 practical experiences organized by members of the essential tech laboratory. The activities were about different aspects of the scientific study: training, infrastructures, financial resources and climate. After the activities we went to Cailler Chocolate Factory in Gruyere. It was amazing, we tried so many different chocolates that i can remember.

Here you have our conclusions about the work done in the 3th activity of the meeting!!

On Tuesday morning we met at school at 9:30. We saw a film about Essential Tech. In that film we could see that many of the medical equipments donated to Africa are not used there for many reasons. Sometimes they work for a while and stop working and nobody was there to fix them, also sometimes they don't have electricity, or as they have a different temperature, equipment is not working properly. So, sometimes donations turn into a problem because they have to throw them, they called them the White Elephant (very big and useless). It was very shocking for us because we didn't expect that donations could turn into a problem. In Tuesday afternoon we had a guided visit of Genèva. We saw the Jet d'eau, the cathedral, old town... it was very nice to see the city.

During our meeting in Genève, the TV comes and we talk with  them !!

On Monday we visited CERN to work on Inquiry Levels 1 and 2. First of all we entered CERN, it was very exciting, because we have heard a lot about this place where many work on science is done.  We visited an exposition where we could see how the particules accelerator works.  After that we started the could chamber activity. We built our own particle detector using dry ice and isopropanol to make cosmic particles and natural radiation visible. For making the experiment we had to follow the safety rules specified by the S'Cool LAB team.  When the experiment was created we could observe and categorize particle tracks: proton, neutron, electron, muon, positron and photon.  On Monday afternoon we had the school reception. We met the principal and the swiss students have prepared a guided tour through their school. We really liked it, and we could see their amazing computer room, and also that they have classes that we don't have such as kitchen classes a...

We are in Genève for the 4th Meeting!!