Research Fellows
Pavlos Alexias
Early Stage Researcher 4 at Engys IT
Outreach Summary:
The idea was to visit primary schools (age of 12 years old) in Greece, in order to explain basic fluid dynamics concepts in a simplified form. The goal was to explain various phenomena through an interactive course using a lot of experiments.
Outreach Description:
We started with explaining simple concepts like what we call a fluid? What do we call pressure of a fluid? How pressure and velocity in a fluid are correlated? These concepts were explained through experiments and demonstrations to be easy for the children to capture and understand them.
After that, we dived into more complicated and advanced activities although alwaysn using simplified terminology and explanations, such as:
- What is lift?
- How can we generate lift?
- How can airplanes fly?
- What is the correlation between rotation and aerodynamic forces?
- Why are we doing simulation instead of experiments (and vice versa)?
Outreach Outcome:
The outreach replaced the lesson of physic of the 6th grade of Leonteios School in Nea Smurni, Athens. The outcome was that we attracted the interest of the students and they were really curious to learn, asking questions and participating with joy to all of the experiments.
*This outreach activity was conducted in collaboration with the ESR 11: Ilias Vasilopoulos.