Some members of the IceSafari team (G. Iorga, A. Dumitru, B. Mihalache, A.M.Boca – UB and D. Moaca, A. Scarlat, A. Tudor – INCAS) took part in an activity aimed to promote science among highschool students organized on July 7, 2022 in the town of Ploiesti. The activity was included in the Project Communication Plan, as part of the dissemination, communication and outreach activities of the project. In this event, interactive presentations and experiments were made for air quality and meteorological parameter monitoring together with a number of 30 students of the National College “I.L. Caragiale” in Ploiesti, in order to promote science among young students and encourage them to study applied physics.
The partnership between “I.L. Caragiale” Highschool in Ploiești, National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” – INCAS and Faculty of Physics – University of Bucharest also aimed to attract highschool students to the field of atmospheric sciences and offer them information about opportunities for their future careers as researchers. A traditional collaboration exists between UBFF and I.L. Caragiale Highschool – the high school is one of the best, with participants and winners at the national and international science Olympiads.
In the discussions within the event on 7th July, the members of the IceSafari team had the opportunity to interact directly with the participating students and teachers, promoted the project and its financing mechanism, and answered to various questions received from those interested in the scientific themes presented, so that the objective of the trip was fully achieved. The discussions on the impact that clouds and air pollution has on our lives and health in the context of climate change were complemented by practical activities through experiments to monitor the atmosphere with the help of high-tech specific devices (AWS, LVS sampler, impactor, Dustrak, ozonometer, etc.). Moreover, the participants were informed on how we can build a low-cost experimental system for independent air quality monitoring and some key scientific and technical aspects that must be taken into account when building such a system were discussed.
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