YM Prague section took as one of its first projects popularization of science, encourage to study natural sciences, and clarify the functioning of the scientific environment. And to do this, members of YM Prague section visited schools. In one case, the situation was reversed: we welcomed, we welcomed one group of students at our faculty.
We have visited several schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (because of the internationality of our team) where, after the agreement with the school director, we presented interesting topics of modern physics in an accessible way for high school students, for instance quark-gluon plasma, standard model of particle physics, collider physics and others. Furthermore, we have talked about the functioning of research at universities in the Czech Republic and then, for example, in international institutions such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN. The lecture was followed by a debate with the students about the presented topics and about direction of their future education. As mentioned above, our faculty was also visited by a high-school student group, so we ensured them small snack as a welcome.
In summary, around 100 of students participated in our lectures.
A great success for our group was the opportunity to present at a summer school “Tudy cesta nevede.” Czech expression for “This is not the way”. Website (in Czech) http://tcn.fjfi.cvut.cz). This is the traditional summer school in the Czech republic, this year, in 2015, it was the 15th year, for high-school students interested in physics, mathematics, and other natural science. The summer school was organized into lectures and workshops, and our group was involved in the theoretical part with lectures on experimental particle physics. We had great amount of time to present, meaning one morning session (around 3 hours). Group of 40 students was visiting our session.
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