Thursday 18 February 2010

PIC goes to IES Egara (outreach activity)


Last Tuesday, the 16th-February, Dr. Josep Flix went to IES Egara to give an overview of CERN, the LHC and the Grid to latest course high school students. It was not an easy task arriving there: it was raining, I was carrying around 100 CERN brochures with me, some other PIC brochures, the laptop, and all this... driving my bike! After getting lost on the town and asking several locals, I finally arrived to the high school. "Wet", but in time. The students were really surprised hearing what we do at CERN: science and technology. In the end, I was lucky enough not to electrocute myself during the talk (remember the rain and me "wet") and then students were able to place very interesting questions, indeed, well after the talk... Yes, the dark holes creation also was raised there, which seems a quite general and spread issue. From here, I want to congratulate Physics professor Juan Luis Rubio, to keep his students interested in Physics and with a very good knowledge of Particle Physics. After the talk, we spent also a good time in a nice restaurant on the town. At that time rain was gone...