Science Day: Bringing science to students

Did you know that ITER’s Vacuum Vessel (tokamak) will weigh as much as the Eiffel Tower? No? Well then you didn’t participate at Science Day, organised every year in Catalonia.

Science Day gives students who soon will be choosing which university course to apply for a taste of what a professional career in the scientific field could be like - sessions are simultaneously organised in 100 Catalan schools. With audiences of around 100 students each, F4E’s Ferran Albajar and Jesus Izquierdo brought science to secondary school students by presenting fusion energy and the ITER project.  Students participated very actively, showing great enthusiasm and good knowledge of the different energy sources, environmental questions, matter composition and basic principles of fusion technologies. Who knows, these presentations at Science Day, might have sown the seed for a budding future physicist?