The Otago chemistry outreach team has arrived at the Aspire resort where they’ll be lodging for the duration of the 2018 Madam Curie Science Camp. The camp is an annual event that gathers 144 of Taiwan’s brightest high school students together to participate in science workshops, hear talks from lauded academics (this year’s lineup includes 2 nobel laureates), and to be exposed to different cultural approaches to science communication (that’s us).
The role of the Otago team is, broadly, to expand the students’ understanding of what science is. Each year the team holds a chemistry quiz, but incorporates cultural questions and creative challenges. Each year the team facilitates a hands-on experiment- but the experiment takes place outside the lab. Their is an international preconception that science is a formal, sterile practice- and that preconception is harmful to privileged and underprivileged students alike.
You can take a peak into the outreach team’s travels (and their nightly homework club) at the following youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ13N1I2Jh0&t=2s
This blog will be updated periodically as the camp progresses, but you can also keep up with the team on facebook, twitter, youtube, and Instagram at the following URLs
Otago chemistry outreach page: https://www.facebook.com/chemotago/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvEnYDv1AdrA016_E86Fj0w
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chemotago
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chemotago/
The outreach team stops by Taipei Maru theme park en route to the Aspire resort
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