On 12-16 September 2022, JINR hosted the second Scientific School for Students of the Children's University of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. Twelve schoolchildren went through a competitive selection and arrived in Dubna to know more about the Institute.
The event programme started at the JINR interactive exhibition dedicated to the basic facilities of the Institute and continued in the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Laboratory of High Energy Physics, and the Laboratory of Radiation Biology, where the schoolchildren saw the operating research equipment and were able to ask questions to the researchers. One day of the School was devoted to a trip to Moscow. The students spent a significant part of the School's schedule doing hands-on activities. The guests learned the principles of measuring signals received from experimental equipment. They also got the idea how to work with oscilloscopes, signal processing systems, and scintillation counters. The students were introduced to the basics of working with vacuum technology widely used in many physical experiments. The result of their hands-on work was a scintillation telescope for studying cosmic radiation, which future physicists assembled under the supervision of the VBLHEP specialists.
A very special part of this year’s programme was the participants’ visit to the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum named after V. G. Kadyshevsky. The Egyptian schoolchildren were offered a special training programme developed by the UC staff member Dr. Ivan Lomachenkov. It included demonstrations of physical phenomena and a laboratory work.
According to the participants, the School was a success. The guests managed to bring home not only new knowledge and impressions of Russia, Dubna, and JINR, but also new acquaintances.
