The Budapest YM Section participated in the international outreach initiation called “Researchers Night” by organising a physics related event at the Eötvös University. This was an open and free event for any curious person, but our main focus was on families, teenagers and younger children. Altogether in the end we had around eight hundred participants during the night, most of the visitors were families and student groups with teachers.
There were a couple short, easily understandable and entertaining scientific presentation. The presentation were presented by renewed researchers and students alike, with topics from the most novel and interesting research areas, showcasing the methodology of scientific research. During the whole afternoon and evening (for seven hours) there were five thematic demonstration stands with over a 100 different experiments (the five themes were: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, modern physics, mechanics and liquids). The participants were able to try out most of the non-dangerous experiments themselves, many of which can be easily reproduced at home. Some grand experiments were presented on the bank of the Danube on an hourly basis . There were two to four presenters at each table, mostly physics students.
In cooperation with the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, the two local universities (Eötvös Loránd University and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Institutes we organised a professional and interesting Physics Researchers Night event in Budapest. With the help of the Hungarian Astronautical Society, we also had a poster session in front of the experiments hall, where the participants could get a broad view of Hungarian scientific achievements in space.
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