Outreach

This year on April 17th PONYS organized the fourth edition of “Passione Fisica” (“Physical Passion”, roughly translated) at Città della Scienza, the biggest science museum of southern Italy: an entire day dedicated to physics popularization through demonstrations and simple experiments. Supported by EPS and OSA  and involving more than 100 Leggi tutto…

The European Researchers’ Night is a huge Europe-wide outreach event which aims to enhance researchers’ public recognition and to stimulate interest in research careers, especially among young people. This year the PONYS took part to the event in the frame of a greater collaboration. We were part of the Naples Leggi tutto…

Science Café is a public science initiative started in United Kingdom, but currently running all over the word. Typically, one monthly evening meeting is organised in a café or bar to which one or several scientists are invited to talk in laymen’s terms about their work in a topical or Leggi tutto…

“Physica in Fabula” is born by the idea of putting together two worlds apparently distant: literature and physics. After reading a brief literary passage, some simple experiments related to the story are shown and explained; for example “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” is linked to some experiments of geometrical Leggi tutto…

For the second consecutive year, the PONYS organized a Scientific Speed Dating (SSD) in Naples main square, Piazza del Plebiscito. The event was organized together with the Physics Department of Federico II University and the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISASI), in Leggi tutto…

“Building” was the theme of 30th edition of Futuro Remoto, the biggest Naples science festival, which took place in Piazza del Plebiscito, from October 7th to 10th 2016. For the second year in a row, PONYS has participated, showing up Fisici in piazza: a great journey through interactive simple experiments Leggi tutto…

During the 30th edition of Futuro Remoto, PONYS presented the chain reaction’s laboratory. Inspired by the “Rube Goldberg Machine”, the chain reaction is an attraction composed by many contraptions linked to each other through physical mechanisms. When some external agent activates the first, an entire cascade of events follows along Leggi tutto…

Our group organized a competition for high school students, who were asked to realize a short video showing an experiment about any field of physics. Many schools took part to this activity, here are the links to the videos they made: Electrolysis with salted water Playing with thermodynamics Free fall Leggi tutto…