2021
September? IOSA's back again!
After our (well-deserved) rest time during summer, we are back again with more enthusiasm and ideas than ever. Last year we have successfully adapted our activities to the covid situation, but now we are ready to undertake face-to-face activities, and do on site workshops. New experiments, new events and lots of science and fun are coming.
Stay tuned to the next months updates! We will continue informing...
Talk "La luz se mira pero no se toca" Semipresencial talk at the IO about machine learning by David Bronte. 31st May
David Bronte, predoctoral researcher at CNR-IPCF, and ex IOSA group member, gave us a talk about optical forces (like optical tweezers) and machine learning. It was an amazing outreach talk, explaining so complicated phenomena for all audience levels. This is the poster that we performed to spread in media. It was a semipresencial activity in the Institute of Optics and by zoom.
International Day of Light 16 May. Online Experiments with Terrassa's Institutes
For the DIL organized in Terrassa we devoleped 4 experiments with students of 1st and 2nd bachelors year with whom we seek to learn basic concepts of optics such as what does the refractive index means, how does refraction influence vision and how to use reflection to create a pseudo-hologram.
The International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.
Although the experiments were planned to be on site, we managed to do online experiments with 2 bachelor students.
The experience was incredible and the students had fun and learnt a lot about optics. They were able to perform the experiments with the material we sent them. We are looking forward the next workshop, now that we dominate the online format. Nontheless we hope that next year we can do them on site.
IEES Aquis Celenis, Galicia. Online Workshop. Part ll
On April 30, Amal ,Rocío, and Sara carried out their first online workshop. The activity was aimed to high-school students from Aquis Celenis, in Caldas de Reis, Galicia, Spain. Once again, the activity had to performed in an online format. But thanks to the student's commitment and enthusiasm, both the researchers and the kids learnt a lot a had lots of fun.
During the second part of this workshop, we talked image formation and the principles of the focal lenght and dioptic power. Using an image projection above a sheet of paper, students could calculate the lens power of negative and positive lenses. With a laser beam and different eye patterns, we saw how the light focuses on different points in a myopic, hyperopic, and emmetropc eyes as well as how to correct them
We learnt how the light behaves as it passes through different inclinations of a prism, and the students played and ejoyed the principles of image formation with hand-made periscopes.
Sara El Aissati performed an AOll tour where she showed the lab set-up and how do the lasers work. The were amazed with all of the systems.
Although it was in an online format, the experience was incredible again and the students had fun learning about optics. We are looking forward the next workshop, whether it's online or not.
It was such a success!
Recording Workshop Videos with Ciudad Ciencia and Filmociencia
During March 2021, Cultura Científica offered to to provide a producer to profesionally record videos of the workshops that were done during Week of Science 2020. Filmociencia was in charge of the production.
IOSA members became actors for a week, in which videos of different experiments and workshops related to light phenomena were performed and explained.
Videos were recorded in the Institute, and we had lots of fun performing and acting in front of the cameras while reproducing the scrips over and over again.
Science outreach will be more dynamic and visually calling, and it will be easier now for people to do funny experiments at home with low cost material.
You can find videos of those experiments in the link below!
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IEES Aquis Celenis, Galicia. Online Workshop. Part l
Last March, Xoana and Victor performed our first online workshop with a group of high-school students from the school Aquis Celenis, in Caldas de Reis, Galicia, Spain. Due to the pandemic, they had to perform the activity online, what did not prevent us of having a good time. Even though it was early in the morning, with this group of proactive and enthusiastic students, we learn what is the index of refraction and how the light behaves as it passes through different materials, such as air, water, and oil. Using the Snell’s law, we also estimated the angle of total reflection and saw its effect on oil. Now we know how optic fiber works!
Although online, the experience was amazing and the students had fun learning about optics!