Students in grades 7 to 11 in Irkutsk Oblast will be able to work with leading scientists from ISU's Physics Faculty and the Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics on their own research in physics or astronomy. The best works will be presented at the Man and Cosmos conference in April 2014, and winners will receive valuable prizes. Organizers hope the project will help attract students to fundamental science and spark interest in physics and astronomy.
Students in grades 7-11 from schools in the Irkutsk Region will be able to work with leading scientists from the Faculty of Physics at ISU and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The result will be their own educational research project in physics or astronomy. The authors of the best projects will take part in the “Man and Space” conference, which will be held in April 2014.As explained at ISU, school students wishing to take part in the conference need to choose a topic from those offered on the ISTP SB RAS website and contact their academic supervisor by email. Students may propose their own research topic.
As a reminder, the “Man and Space” conference has been held in Irkutsk since 2011. Each year, more than 60 school students from the Angara region take part in it. In 2013, school students from Buryatia also gave presentations at the conference. Based on the results of the conference, the authors of the best presentations receive valuable prizes – books and tablet computers.
The main goal of the conference organizers is to draw school students’ attention to fundamental science and awaken their interest in physics and astronomy.
Based on materials from the press service of the Department for Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region