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| − | [[Image:Oficina Quelfes.jpg|left|300px]] I've started exploring the solar cooking technology potencial as a tool in science education, mainly as an excelent way of showing how empirically gained knowledge could turn into bright technologies if we pay attention to them. That happened during the summer of 2005, as I had the opportunity of creating a summer solar cooker workshop series for 6 to 12 years old children, in [[Centro Ciência Viva de Tavira]], where I work. Since then, |
+ | [[Image:Oficina Quelfes.jpg|left|300px]] I've started exploring the solar cooking technology potencial as a tool in science education, mainly as an excelent way of showing how empirically gained knowledge could turn into bright technologies if we pay attention to them. That happened during the summer of 2005, as I had the opportunity of creating a summer solar cooker workshop series for 6 to 12 years old children, in [[Centro Ciência Viva de Tavira]], where I work. Since then, I have done regular workshops for families, students, scouts, or just curious people. |
In these workshops I try not to overload people with theory, but instead put them to work on creative models, starting from simple experiments that show the physical basis of solar cooking. |
In these workshops I try not to overload people with theory, but instead put them to work on creative models, starting from simple experiments that show the physical basis of solar cooking. |
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| − | Presently, I'm managing a cooperation project based on inter-scholar team and communication for the transfer of solar cooking |
+ | Presently, I'm managing a cooperation project based on inter-scholar team and communication for the transfer of solar cooking technology. The project, called ImpulSolar, started this year with twoo cooperations programs between portuguese students from Tavira and students from Porto Novo, [[Cape Verde]] and Kenitra, [[Morocco]]. |
==External links== |
==External links== |
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Revision as of 17:35, 7 July 2008
I've started exploring the solar cooking technology potencial as a tool in science education, mainly as an excelent way of showing how empirically gained knowledge could turn into bright technologies if we pay attention to them. That happened during the summer of 2005, as I had the opportunity of creating a summer solar cooker workshop series for 6 to 12 years old children, in Centro Ciência Viva de Tavira, where I work. Since then, I have done regular workshops for families, students, scouts, or just curious people.
In these workshops I try not to overload people with theory, but instead put them to work on creative models, starting from simple experiments that show the physical basis of solar cooking.
Presently, I'm managing a cooperation project based on inter-scholar team and communication for the transfer of solar cooking technology. The project, called ImpulSolar, started this year with twoo cooperations programs between portuguese students from Tavira and students from Porto Novo, Cape Verde and Kenitra, Morocco.
External links
- December 2007: Poster about the cooperation program ImpulSolar, presented in the Science and Technology for Development International Conference in Granada , Spain
- November 2007: Nice photo-report of two workshops attended by scouts from Quelfes, Algarve, Portugal (text in portuguese)
- August 2005: Video about Solar Cookers made by young attendents of a multimedia workshop in Centro Ciencia Viva de Tavira, Portugal
Contact
Filipe Santos
Centro Ciência Viva de Tavira
Convento do Carmo
8800-311 Tavira
Portugal
Tel: 281326231
Fax: 281326212