The La Orotava Science Fair has become a benchmark for the dissemination of science in these twenty years of history. Canary Islands. The main research centers of the Islands, scientific associations and foundations have participated. In these years of history, some 65,000 have visited the Science Fair people who have been able to participate in experiments, visit exhibitions, see demonstrations, enjoy astronomical observations or enter the different planetariums, among other things. And now it’s back.
It is expected that the presentation of the new edition will be carried out by the orotavense mayor, Francisco Linares; the Minister of Innovation, Research and Development of the Tenerife Council, Juan José Martínez; the director of Cienciamanía, Juanjo Martín, and Belén Machado, representative of the Cepsa Foundation. This year’s exhibition will take place next Sunday, November 12, between 10:30 and 18:30, in the Plaza de la Constitución.
Scientific workshops will be offered and technological, demonstrations, mathematical games, sun observation, educational robotics, scientific experiments, crazy science, magic and talks that are added to the stands of research centers and companies. In addition, this year there is a new children’s area with specific activities for children under 3 years old.
On this day will be presented book by the journalist Verónica Pavés Blas Cabrera, a magnetic life and an activity called Ferments and Experiments will return. There is also a space dedicated to the analysis of the last forest fire, “and there will be many other surprises such as being able to send radio signals and messages to space.”
Additionally, the La Orotava Science Fair Awards. To commemorate this second decade of work, we want to make a gesture of gratitude to all those people and institutions that work every day to bring science closer to citizens and to put the Islands in the focus of international science. “In this way, a call for awards is inaugurated that has no equal in the Islands, thus filling a historical void,” the note states. The awards have three categories: Research, Science Teaching and Dissemination. The winners in this first edition are the parasitologist Basilio Valladares, the journalist Carmen del Puerto and the Physics professor Miquel Hernández.
