CERN partners up with Google for Science Fair

CERN partners up with Google, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American to create a new kind of online science competition that is more global, open and inclusive than ever before. Students aged 13 - 18 from around the world are invited to enter and compete for once-in-a-lifetime experiences, scholarships and real-life work opportunities.

The competition is open to students aged 13 to 18 from around the world working on their own or in a team of two or three. The submission deadline is 4 April 2011.

Further information:
http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/index.html
and on Scientix's web page:
http://www.scientix.eu/web/guest/news/news-all/news-detail?p_p_id=webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=5&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F_action=view-detail&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F_groupId=10137&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F_articleId=38223

Nanotechnology

http://nanoyou.eu/


Do you want to see what the NANOYOU schools are doing?
Visit the teachers' blog and discover what the NANOYOU schools are doing through pictures, videos and posts!
http://blog.eun.org/nanoyou/

Note the date for the Scientix conference

Don’t miss your chance to learn more about the main actors of Scientix, meeting other members, sharing experiences, and contribute in improving the science education in Europe during the first Scientix Conference on 6-8 May 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The number of participants will be limited, so book your place well in advance!

There is also a number of places for speakers and exhibitors available! If you are working with science education and would like to share your project, research, tools or good practices with the conference participants, check out the different sessions and workshops in the registration form (available soon).

http://www.scientix.eu/web/guest/news/news-all/news-detail?p_p_id=webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=5&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F_action=view-detail&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F_groupId=10137&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_scientixportlet_INSTANCE_Dj7F_articleId=33815

Science at the Service of Europe

http://ec.europa.eu/research/sse/2009/index_en.cfm

How does TV work?

This is a basic model of TV operation.

It shows a camera taking a picture and a TV set showing it.

You may use the pen tool to draw a picture on the left and watch it being regenerated on the TV set.



http://www.agentsheets.com/Applets/how-does-tv-work/

Typing lessons

You may:

* Check in Which fingers go here to see which finger should hit each key
* Go to 1.Home Row, Left Hand and start the lesson

(Go to the bottom of the page and click on Click here to start)

* Continue with the rest of the lessons
http://www.typing-lessons.org/preliminaries_4.html

Young's Double Slit Experiment

Double slit experiment showing interference and diffraction.

You may change the:

* Distance between the slits
* Wave length
* Width of a slit
* Slit to screen distance

You may also:

* Switch from viewing the experiment to viewing the results
* Click and drag anywhere on the screen to change the viewpoint
* Double click anywhere to shift the origin

http://www.surendranath.org/Applets/Optics/Slits/DoubleSlitID/DblSltIntDifApplet.html