From Friday the 7th until Sunday the 9th of October, SOLEIL will take part, as every year, in the Science Fair to introduce SOLEIL and do some science through fun workshops to the lay audience!
For this 2022 edition, after two years of forced break, the health situation allows an in-person festival. SOLEIL will therefore be at the Village des Sciences at ENS-Paris Saclay with many other laboratories of the plateau. In all, more than 70 scientific workshops and 31 partners (scientific culture associations, research institutes, private companies, universities, colleges, and student associations).
The theme of this 31st edition of the Science Fair is climate change. We have therefore developed a new workshop on the use of light to study pollutants. On the program: our life-size periodic table, enigma, fluorescence and much more! And of course, the interactive table and virtual reality tour will be there to explain how SOLEIL works.
Friday October 7 is reserved to scholars (middle and high school), but on Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th, admission is free for the public!
Where
ENS Paris-Saclay
4, Avenue des Sciences - Gif-sur-Yvette (91)
When
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Saturday October 8 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Sunday October 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m
Description of the workshops
- 360° VR Tour Workshop :
Visit SOLEIL without moving from your chair! Our virtual reality headsets allow you to visit our particle accelerator, to understand how it works and what it is used for, in less than 6 minutes
- Workshop Discover the SOLEIL synchrotron
What is synchrotron light? How do we produce it? What use is it to us? Come and discover all this thanks to various scientific and fun activities accompanied or independently.
- Workshop Using light to study pollution
Through various scientific experiments, let's go in search of water and soil pollutants! Together let's look at how to identify them, study them and above all get rid of them.
Find the complete science village program here