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'Science for youth' (INTRODUCTION MUSIC)
Science Faculty at UNED has seen its corridors and classrooms for one week
full of students, but too young to be in the university.
This is due to science's week of Madrid Community,
for which UNED has promoted seminars addressed to schoolchildren between 10 and 14 years.
Conferences, workshops and experiments coordinated by University professors
and directed to the science's popularization starting from infancy
at which time vocations are awakened.
The problem is that science needs to be spread, isn't it?
Children have an image of mad scientific that is in his lab with his coat and blows a fuse and such, but truly this is not like this.
Science is present in daily life and it is necessary for quantity of things, for multitude of things,
and the idea is for the children to became aware that science is not some so, so far, is it? Making it feasible and fun, doesn't it? (HESITATES)
(HESITATES) That's the reason why we try to do it in an amusing way:
we give talks, we do workshops at the lab, we conduct physic and chemistry experiments,
but always trying to play with child and
trying to get the play aspect of what we want to transmit it.
The morning starts with a talk about the essence of a proper diet,
an adequate nutritive behaviour and healthier practices of children at the table.
Chemistry is the protagonist of the second part, but it is the moment to put on the white coat and to discover the secrets of everyday science.
From the descomposition of water to create hidden messages in paper in order to reveal its content.
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The tour of Science Faculty led schoolchildren to mathematical part of the visit with an entertaining result.
We have gone with a chemist that he is showing us, well, things as, for example, eh (HESITATES) by pouring water with iodine,
oxygen was separated from hydrogen and it was fine.
And, after, we came here, it is a math room and we have done a class work,
about, well, maths and all that. And they have been showing us, well, for the straight lines,
and with compass and the Theorem of Pythagoras and all that.
The thing I like the most was when we put our name with a little juice lemon on a paper,
and nothing was seen, and then, we have sprayed betadine with water and it was visible, I don't know but I have liked me. (LAUGHS).
And then, a math contest where the winner was to get some sweets as a prize, (LAUGHS)
and we have won and I am very happy too.
What I have caught my attention has been that we have taken a paper and we have thrown a thing with lemon and,
firstly, nothing was seen, (DOUBTS) after when we have put on betadine, we have already seen what we have written before.
The contribution of the faculty to science week of Madrid Community
brings us closer to the collection of Mathematical moments that decorates building's corridors.
More than 30 panels developed by American Mathematical Society
and translated by "Real Sociedad Matemática Española"
willing to spread the contribution of this subject to science, culture, nature and technology.
Mathematical moments is a poster collection developed by American Mathematical Society
in order to spread the influence of maths in culture, technology, science and nature. (BREATHES)
Each of these posters deals with a topical issue and in these was recover,
eh, in a brief way, the topic, as well as mathematical tools that have served or served for its study,
as well as a photography, a nice photography about the topic.
A full week of activities that does not end behind Faculty walls.
Some of Partner Centres at UNED will be other nerve centres,
until there, professors of faculty moved to promote the scientific knowledge and the spreading of science.
(CREDITS) (FINAL MUSIC)