INMA researchers Irene Lucas and Carlos Pobes, awarded with two runners-up prizes to the Dissemination in Aragon (Third Millennium Awards 2024)
INMA researchers Irene Lucas and Carlos Pobes received on Monday 25th Nov. 2024 two runners-up prizes for the documentary short film ‘Hunting the invisible’ and educational guides that reached schools in towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants and the Agency Nanocrític@s to combat misinformation in the field of science.
The Aragon Nanoscience and Materials Institute (INMA) is a joint institute between CSIC and the University of Zaragoza.
The Nanocrític@s Agency project, led by Irene Lucas, is based on the use of the scientific method to solve problematic situations that are presented with attractive topics for the ages at which they are focused. This is an outreach project aimed at students from kindergarten to high school, which bases its success on the resolution of problem situations by means of the scientific method and critical thinking through the use of nanomaterials and materials that are currently being exploited and/or researched. It is a project that has been running for 6 years with FECYT funding and has more and more participants every year. The situations to be solved by the participants are explained through videos in the form of a short film and the resolution is carried out following the steps of the scientific method with the help of an experiment case, or through escape room type games. The activity for the public aged 3 to 6 years is a Nanostory, which has a printed version and is told interactively with the pupils, combined with experiments in a case that accompany the story. The reception of this project has always been extraordinary. Every year it has reached thousands of students of all levels inside and outside Aragon, students in rural areas thanks to the CRIE programme of the Government of Aragon and has been presented at research conferences and activities of the 11F and the night of the researchers.
In addition, INMA researcher Carlos Pobes collected the runner-up prize with Mirella Abrisqueta, director of the documentary and director of the production company Sintregua. The documentary is a FECYT project by Mirella Abrisqueta, with Carlos Pobes participating as co-scriptwriter. This 50-minute documentary is about the search for dark matter, showing experiments and researchers from all over the world, from CERN to the South Pole, from the Canfranc Underground Laboratory to the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory. Additionally, there is a short version of 25 minutes to take it to high schools in small towns, attaching a didactic guide and visiting some schools to give talks.
26 nov. 2024
