Aug 2 – 7, 2017
Beget, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Community Outreach

Community Outreach
When:Sunday, August 7th @ 16:00 - 18:30
Where:Plaça de la Vila, 1

Due to our chosen conference venue, we have the unique capacity to perform community outreach to Catalan youth geographically isolated from major research centers. In cooperation with the City of Camprodon, NovDES 2016 has organized a community outreach event titled "Somos científicos!" The primary intended audience is high-school aged children from the communities of Beget, Rocabruna, and Camprodon. Successful outreach was performed at Ses Vilariera secondary schools in late April, and has led to a collaboration with the City for a larger event during the conference week, to be held in the town hall (pictured to the right). Conference attendees who elect to participate in this outreach event will perform demonstrations and lead activities which actively engage the youth, their parents, and interested members of the community. Some planned demonstrations and activities are

  • Red-blue stereoscopic visualizations of cosmological structure formation
  • The cloud chamber and the smoke detector
  • Algorithmic efficiency competition
  • Many more!
Transportation from the venue to Camprodon will be provided by shuttle arranged by the organizers.