The XVIII Experimenta fair shows the Physics and Technology projects of 150 Secondary and High School students

The Science Museum of Valencia hosted this Sunday, April 2, in the morning the XVIII Physics and Technology Experiments and Demonstrations Experimenta Fair-Contest with more than 3,500 visitors. The event, organised by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Valencia (UV), has hosted 66 STEM projects, with more than 300 participants (50% women) and is a party that brings physics and technology closer to students from secondary education and the general public in a creative and participatory way. In addition, at 1:30 p.m., the awards ceremony was held in the museum's Santiago Grisolía auditorium, an event that was streamed on the museum's YouTube channel , with more than 10,000 subscribers. The event was preceded by the short scientific show "Entre llums i camps", by first-year Physics students, Elena Rodríguez and Pau Cirujeda, who are also members of the Photonets group. The Experimenta Fair-Contest has the collaboration of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT) - Ministry of Science and Innovation, in addition to other entities and institutions. The awarded projects in the XVIII Experimenta 2023 Fair-Competition were, in the Physics Experiments and Demonstrations category, that of IES Peset Aleixandre (Paterna), 'Ai, que fonc!' (in Compulsory Secondary Education, ESO) and that of the British School Alzira ('Interferómetro de Michelson'), of Baccalaureate. In the Technological Applications category, the award-winning centres were the San José de la Montaña de Cheste School (('Les pastilles de la iaia (determinant analgèsics)' in ESO, and the Enric Valor de Silla IES ('Em tires una mà?') in high school.