26 th EPPOG meeting in Oslo News from
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26 th EPPOG meeting in Oslo News from Slovakia Ivan Melo (University of Zilina) and A. Dirner, F. Franko, B. Tomasik, P. Perichta, Z. Palkova, G. Tarjanyiova, M. Gintner, M. Ozvoldova, E. Kladiva and J. Vanko Ministry of Education
MC 2010 in Slovakia 355 students and 37 teachers from 52 high schools International MC Zilina Trenčín Regional MC S. N. Ves Prešov Banská Bystrica Košice Trnava Bratislava 69 % remained till the end Nitra Coverage in: local radios + newspapers
MC 2010 – new elements Contest of student essays: Prize: T-shirts and publication in local press + our webpage 4 essays handed in, 3 in Slovak, 1 in English 1 university rented a bus to get students home in the end 2 universities: old questionnaires filled by students electronically the day after 68 % came back EVO – students like it and complain about the sound
It was on an ordinary March day when I did something that was way out of character … A friend of mine, admittedly a Physics geek, told me about something called a Masterclass Now, I must say I'm the kind of a student who would normally like to get her hands OFF particle physics. . . but then I noticed something that sparked my interest: “A video-conference”, the leaflet said, … In my opinion, the purpose of 2010's Masterclass was more than fulfilled, because apart from “getting the work done” the Masterclass got us interested in modern physics
Masterclasses 2010 Seminar Secrets and Mysteries of Quantum Physics Students in Zilina + EVO participants in Detva, Prešov, Košice, Prague
Cascade projects 2010 Teams of 3 students make 20 min presentations at their schools 5 teams in 2009 17 teams in 2010 Mentors – volunteers from all HEP comunity
Cascade projects 2010 (cont’d) • • • What are we all made of ? Atoms – Quarks - ? Particle Accelerators – How do they work? Medical Applications of Particle Accelerators – What are they? Recreating the Early Universe at the LHC Antimatter Dark matter Quantum nature of elementary particles Neutrinos Are there more than 3 spatial dimensions? Search for new particles. Higgs boson History of the Universe Grand finals at Sucany high school, Jun 8, 2010
Travelling Exhibition Slovak Journey to Microcosm Zilina Apr 8 – May 7 Organizers: Institute of Experimental Physics SAS Košice, Faculty of Natural Sciences UPJŠ Košice, Slovak Technical Museum, Regional Youth Centre Košice, Department of Physics Technical University Košice and Cryosoft s r. o. University of Zilina Emphasis on Slovak contribution to LHC
Town library 3 classes + 20 -30 individual visitors a day
