It’s next weekend, October 5th and 6th Science Weekend. KNAW and 4TU, among others, will hold activities on Saturday.
KNAW opens the doors of Trippenhuis in Amsterdam for the Free Science Festival Wow! Science?!Suitable for children from 8 years. Build an electric motor or a microscope and explore our strange world with composer Merlin. Or go on a benthic safari in our beautiful grounds and ask our scientists along the way during the Wajo show! Who wouldn’t want to learn cat language or perform Chinese karaoke in our city’s nearly 400-year-old palace?
4TU – City of tomorrow
On Saturday 5 October, student teams from the four technical units will be at Marineterrein Amsterdam with their vehicles, demonstrations and workshops. Topic: “Creating the city of tomorrow.”
What is there to see?
- There will be a Rise team from the University of Twente and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a workshop and demonstration of the MK5 rocket – a rocket from which a parachute is ejected for a soft landing. This solution allows the missile to be reused;
- The Virtue team from TU Eindhoven will discuss with visitors about the terraced house of the future and what it should look like: spatial, sustainable and climate resilient;
- The Delft Hyperloop team from TU Delft showcases their hyperloop technology – a means of transportation that runs on magnetic force and organizes a workshop;
- The Robatic Bullseye team from Wageningen University and Research demonstrates a field robot that drives autonomously through cornfields and can put out fires in the fields;
- In the Solar Team Twenty and the Brunel Solar Team at Delft University, children get the chance to see a high-tech solar-powered car up close;
- Solar Boat Twente lets kids experience how a boat can float on water through the power of the sun;
- The Racing University Eindhoven team displays one of its self-driving electric racing cars, and children can discover how its various parts work.
- With the Totem Game Dev student team at TU Eindhoven, you can try out many new video games and provide feedback on them;
- The WDSense student team from TU Delft and Wageningen University & Research is here with a sensor that measures kidney performance;
- In the Biodiversity Challenge workshop at Wageningen University and Research, children learn what biodiversity is. They search for wild plants and animals in the immediate vicinity of the AMS Institute;
- In the electronics workshop: It cannot be repaired?! Children from TU Delft Science Center disassemble and assemble an old device. They discover the materials used and why many appliances are difficult or impossible to repair;
- In the Design Your Own Sustainable Jeans workshop at the TU Delft Science Centre, children discover how you can work on completely new ways of designing clothes with no residual waste.
