Authors: Jorge Monzón de Castro, Pablo Gila Herranz, Carmen Martín Valderrama
Physics League Valladolid (Spain) has continued its activities despite the current pandemic.
With all the security and safety measures, we have maintained a high
level and number of activities to all the publics. Would you want to
know what we have done?
March 2020. The pandemic starts, people get confined. Weariness for some, source of initiative and imagination for us. “Ciencia en cuarentena”
was a project we started on Twitter to make a bunch of videos telling
people cool science experiments they can do at home. Time to combat
boredom! “La Fisiliga” was an exciting tournament in
which full-time physicists challenged each other. Our public decided by
voting who won each round and learned who each physicist was and what
they did (https://twitter.com/Physics_League/status/1258369583125233664?s=20).
At
the end of the academic year, secondary students face one of their
life-decisions: what they want to study at the university. We help them by organising an online conference
about science degrees and jobs, letting the students meet people of all
science fields. We talked about our experiences and answered questions
to all who were to enter a university programme.
Summer and fall! Time to safe presential activities! With no health risk, we managed to perform a show in Rueda
(Spain) about the physics behind the superpowers. We also
attended an important craftwork and robotics fair in Valladolid called Craftinnova, making good contacts and displaying our amazing hand-made physics experiments. In Pozaldez town, we made a great interactive workshop with the town people (always with a mask, security distance and tons of hydroalcoholic solution).
And now, the crown jewel: Game of Physics, Online Edition. Our most lauded workshop, streamed on Youtube! Over 600 students watched the broadcast. We worked hard get it out with (almost) no glitches (https://youtu.be/cX5orCvvwdU).
Future
projects? A lot of them. We are planning a huge collaboration with
associations from all the Spanish territory to make an online conference every week for all the Spanish-speaking people. We are also organising an online gymkhana about Martian science for school students, two online workshops for similar public during class time and all the activities which are to come, such us a giant Tesla Coil we are building and making a video-tutorial so that other sections can replicate our work.
We are alive! And we are dangerous! No excuses for spreading physics knowledge!
