The Bonn Physics Show By Students for Kids an Exciting Outreach and Education Project

by Herbert Dreiner

at Condensed Matter Seminar

Mon, 02 Jan 2017, 11:30
Physics building (#54) room 207

Abstract

The Bonn Physics show started in Dec 2001 The special thing about our show is that it is developed and performed by Bonn university physics students For me as a professor the primary target group are the university students Since 2001 we have been performing a new physics show in Bonn every year The show is addressed at kids aged 10 and older We fill an 550 seat auditorium 8 10 times a year With the experienced physics students we have developed many spin offs: e g YouTube films Science Slams building new demo experiments Importantly we have also developed more advanced shows in particular about elementary particle physics The most recent show on particle physics involves more than 25 live experiments and is embedded in a historical story line With various shows we have travelled across Germany Berlin DESY Heidelberg K ln Solingen Oberhausen Deutsches Museum M nchen and more recently also across Europe: CERN Oxford London Padua Trieste as well as Copenhagen and Beijing China In this colloquium I show a few experiments live as well as films of experiments I try to emphasize the essential features of a successful show and give some advice on how to set up a similar show yourself

Created on 27-12-2016 by Bar Lev, Yevgeny (ybarlev)
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