Team:UPO-Sevilla/Human Practice/Science Fair
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Science Fair
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Feria de la Ciencia (Science Fair) in Seville, is the principal activity of the project Ciencia viva, Ciencia compartida (Living Science, Shared Science) which is developed by the Sociedad Andaluza para la Divulgación de la Ciencia, SADC, (Andalusian Society on the Popularization of Science). In Science Fair several education institutions, research centers and university faculties are invited to spread and shared their projects, experiments and scientific knowledge with the general public, but above all, school and high-school students. The objective of this annual event is to promote learning and spreading of science, to stimulate research field and to favor the exchange of experiences and education between professors, alumni, families, scientific community, companies and the man in the street. The projects that are exhibited in the Science Fair belong to different scientific fields: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Technological Development, etc. Moreover, each year the Fair is focused on a subject matter.
5.200 m2 assigned for scientific spreading, 85 stands, 26 scientific institutions, companies and universities, 20.200 visitors. These were approximately the numbers of the IX edition of Feria de la Ciencia, which took place on May 12nd, 13rd, 14th, 2011, on the Pabellón del Futuro of the Isla de La Cartuja, in Seville. With the topic “Everything is number”, it tried to show the public how numbers are part of our everyday life and all disciplines of knowledge, from Ecology, to Literature, as well as, Economy, Biology and so on. Also, it was commemorated the International Year of Chemistry and the International Year of Forest.
Thanks to CABD (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo) and OTRI (Oficina de Transferencia de Resultados de Investigación), the UPO-Sevilla Team had the opportunity to participate in this edition of the Fair Science and explain what Synthetic Biology is to the public. Also, we intended to make understand the importance of multidisciplinarity in 21st century science. With this aim, we organized some games to make sure that boys and girls from 5 to 18 years old could understand the meaning of synthetic biology as an new field of science, the basis of its innovative “based on parts” perspective and its need to embrace Informatics, Mathematics and Biology.
One of the games involved designing and creating a new cell that could do anything the designer, that is the child, would like to. The public was offered an empty and uncolored cell and was encouraged to “create your own cell” by introducing into it some puzzle pieces that provided defined functions. Other game (partially related with our project) lied in deciphering a based on color secret message that was encoded in fictitious bacterial multicolored plates, or in the other hand, create their own message.
Entertaining and instructive!