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The School of Experimental Sciences and Technology (ESCET) and the Unit for Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+i) of the URJC have jointly organized the first sessions of 'Science à la carte', an initiative aimed at students of second year of high school to publicize the research being carried out at the URJC, as well as the work spaces and laboratories.
The activities have been scheduled for two mornings and the students have been able to individually choose those three that have been most attractive to them due to their content. In this way, the main objective of the organizers has been to promote vocations and motivate students to study a scientific career.
In total, 18 activities have been offered that have covered most of the different areas of knowledge taught at ESCET: Environmental Sciences, Food Science and Technology, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Geology and Biology.
The students have been able to experiment with food and test their sense of smell, observe a drop of water and a moss under a microscope, solve different challenges to make everyday objects with innovative materials, make small-scale volcanoes to find out what happens inside and escape of a laboratory solving puzzles with the help of physics.
In addition, the participants have visited an authentic renewable energy unit, a wastewater treatment plant, a chemical engineering plant and an open-air laboratory to learn how climate change is studied. These facilities are located in the Technological Support Center of the Móstoles campus of the URJC.
107 students from 5 institutes in the Community of Madrid and one from the province of Toledo participated in the first edition of 'Science à la carte'. These conferences have been financed by the Office of the Vice President for University Extension and Institutional Relations with the support of the Office of the Vice President for Scientific Policy, to which the UCC+i is attached.
