Science students visit CERN
The 50 University students at Technorama, the Swiss Interactive Science Centre.
A group of 50 students reading for various degrees at the Faculty of Science recently visited CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, which is currently breaking barriers in its attempt to uncover the origins of the universe.
The five-day educational visit organised by the Science Students’ Society (S-Cubed) also included a day trip to Technorama, an interactive science centre full of exhibits and demonstrations encompassing a wide spectrum of fields, designed to teach science in a fun and informal way while providing great entertainment for all ages.
The students also visited the salt mines of Bex for a two-hour tour deep beneath the ground, where they learnt about this precious resource. They were also able to appreciate the beauty of the Rhine falls.
Nicholas Aquilina, a Maltese student at CERN accompanied the group on the tour.
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Pule' Carmel
Apr 22nd 2012, 11:30
""The 50 University students at Technorama, the Swiss Interactive Science Centre.""
And in Malta we still do not have a Science or a technology Museum for our Children to interact with the Sciences. We should be ashamed of ourselves. All developed countries have in addition to art and historic museums they have Science mmuseums
John Hili had ample machines to illlustrate the mechanical side of Engineering and the Electrical side can be supplied with so many units from what the British left and the older machines from the Old Powerstations and some of the ships that were sunk in the depth of the sea around Malta.
Sorry folks , education in Malta is still lagging behind in giving our children all the opportunities to deveop in all the directions necessary to develop a nation. We are good in religion, History, Archeology, Social matters, Politics, arts, music and entertainment, finances, communicatioins, psychologies and looking after needy children etc and collecting charities during Christmas, but we do nothing to assit the high fliers.
itwas like that in my time and it still is. Please let us go ahead and assist people like John Hili to erect a Science Museum where hundreds of machinery could be enjoyed by local students and tourists alike.
The traditional seacraft could be given an impetus to regenerate the Harbour area and this marine activity can also be linked to the Science Museum and the schools.
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