The outreach activity was completed in collaboration with ESR 5 in December 2017.

Topics such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as well as optimization are very important nawadays when designing aerodynamic shapes. Most of the people are not aware of the importance and the meaning of the aforementioned topics.

The target of our outreach activity was therefore to engage with young students and help the understand the importance of the these topics. We chose to engage with high school students. We created a presentation that would contain basic information about the importance of CFD in industry and academia. We included very many examples of CFD simulations and fluid mechanics applications and demonstrated results in a very simple way. At the end of the activity we had a discussion with the students to hear their thoughts and answer their questions. 

The activity took place in a high school in Greece during the school hours. We made this decision since we are both greek nationals and therefore it seemed best to present in our mother tongue and in a place where we were both raised.

We both believe that this outreach activity proved to be a success. The students gave us a lot of feedback in the form of questions. Most of those questions showed us a desire to dive deeper in the subjects we talked about. We were also very much benefited by this activity. None of us had done any outreach activity before so this was a great chance to develop our transferable skills. We look forward to doing something similar again.