MU Faculty of Science at STEM Festival in Kuřim for the first time

Our faculty prepared three thematically focused tents for visitors, which offered a number of scientific demonstrations, interactive activities. Our institutes and students participated in the program, who introduced the visitors to the diversity of fields at the Faculty of Science at MU.

What could festival participants try and experience?

• The Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics presented a “Small Science Festival” with Sun observations, scientific quizzes and a CubeSat model.
• The Institute of Physics and Plasma Technology offered experiments with silicon and demonstrations of modern plasma technologies.
• The Institute for Microscopy Research allowed visitors to take a look into the microworld in the program “One World, Many Views”.
• The Institute of Botany and Zoology brought an interactive exhibition “The Jungle Around Us”, focused on biodiversity protection.
• The Institute of Geography attracted attention with practical demonstrations of landscape monitoring – from satellite data and drone photography to laser scanning.
• The program also included an engaging lecture “Career Day in Antarctica”, led by Ing. Pavel Kapler, Ph.D. from the Institute of Geography. He introduced the participants to the environment of the Czech Antarctic Research Program, which is based at Masaryk University and has conducted more than twenty expeditions to this melting white continent. The students met with a direct participant in these expeditions and learned what and how work is done in Antarctica, what the consequences of ongoing climate change are and how it can affect the shape of our planet in the coming decades.

We thank the organizers for the invitation and all participants for their interest and active participation.

We are happy to be able to present natural sciences in a fun, understandable way, with an emphasis on practice – exactly where it makes sense.