2008-2009 School year
The success story of Xperimania will continue in the 2008-2009 school year with the new “Check out the property” competition that invites students to create a test to investigate a property in a daily object, identify materials with the property and further find out about its use in everyday life.
Multilingual online chats in Spanish, English, French and German will also be organised on a regular basis.
The competition is open to 10-20 years old students in secondary schools across Europe. The deadline for the submissions is 30 April 2009. The best entries will be rewarded by attractive prizes: personal media player for the winning students and a prize fund for the schools to spend on scientific classroom resources.
"(Petro)chemicals: who needs them?"
This will be the topic of our 2nd online chat to be held in English on 20 January 2009. British science journalist Andy Brice has accepted to be our guest and expert on this chat. Some time ago Andy published an article on this topic after he took up the challenge of trying to avoid getting into contact with friendly chemicals during one week. During the chat he will share his experience with students.
Schools interested to participate to this chat may register by sending an e-mail to xperimania@eun.org with the subject line “Xperimania chat”.
Xperimania chat on chemical industry's response to climate change concerns.
The 1st 2008-2009 Xperimania chat took place on 6 November when Spanish-speaking students and teachers came with their climate-change related questions to Enrique Espi, Senior Toxicologist at REPSOL YPF in Madrid.
How to consume less energy, how is the petrochemical industry handling the CO2 issue, are there new ways to create energy, is a new ice-age possible were some of the students' concern. A summary of the chat and the whole transcript (available in Spanish only) are now available on line. print
