On Wednesday, June 19, our faculty is again taking part in ScienceFest, the largest outdoor science-popularization event in the Czech Republic, which takes place in Dejvice, Prague. This year's theme is Science Educates, and representatives from our medical faculty will be at the booth from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to introduce young and older visitors to the work of a doctor through an interactive "mini-doctor course." They will also introduce them to the faculty campaign Hledá se lékař. Admission to the event is free.
As part of the mini-course, visitors will be able to try CPR or microscopy and also test their reflexes on their bodies. Younger visitors will then listen to the sound of the heart with a stethoscope, test human reflexes and learn about the different human organs. Whoever completes all the tasks will receive a small gift from the promotional items of our faculty.
ScienceFest is a joint project of universities, academic departments and leisure institutions. The aim of ake is to introduce science disciplines in a playful and interactive way, to popularize science through creative expositions and to remove the perceived "taboos", to present modern research in all scientific disciplines for practical use, to stimulate the interest of children and young people especially in science and engineering disciplines and to bring current topics of society closer to the public.
Last year's edition was attended by 12,000 visitors and 14 faculties from Charles University, including ours, participated in the festival.
On Wednesday, June 21, students of our faculty again participated in the largest outdoor popular science event in the Czech Republic - ScienceFest 2023, which took place in Prague 6 on Vítězné náměstí and in the adjacent Technical Street. A total of 14 faculties from Charles University took part in the festival, including ours.
The theme of this year's festival was Roots of Science and the programme at our stand, located in the Charles University section, was attended by a total of 284 visitors during the day. They learned about how medicine was treated in the past and where medicine has progressed. The majority of them were pupils of the second and also the first grade of primary schools. They also tried out some practical activities - human resuscitation, listening to the lungs, surgical suturing or learning about the organs of the human body.
The eleventh edition of the event, which is a joint project of universities, academic departments and leisure institutions, was attended by 12,000 visitors.
On Wednesday 22 June, our faculty participated in ScienceFest 2022, whose theme was: Science from A to Z. At the event, our medics introduced visitors to the Doctor Wanted campaign through an interactive "mini-doctor course". Hundreds of visitors stopped by the LF HK stand throughout the day, mainly school pupils and students in the morning, and mostly parents and grandparents with children in the afternoon.
Adults tried out resuscitation, microscopy and tested their reflexes on their bodies as part of a "mini doctor's course". The younger visitors then listened to each other or their parents and grandparents using a stethoscope, tested human reflexes and got to know the internal organs in the body of a teddy bear. Those who completed all the tasks within the "mini-course" received a small gift from the promotional items of our faculty.
After two years, the tenth edition of ScienceFest was held again in the present, traditional form and was visited by almost 16 thousand people.
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Charles University
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