In our school we have been dealing with the Nanoyou project in several lessons including physics circles. The concrete results of the project are already visible.

In the optional lesson

The AFM model

Nanopaprika.eu competition for student's

One of the students (Ervin Hábel) won the second prize at an application by a communal website Nanopaprika.eu. The title of his work was “Nano techniques in our home”.

Ervin’s Nanopage: http://www.nanopaprika.eu/profile/HabelErvin

Regional Scientific Conference among Youth

There was a presentation about the “Nano dilemmas” at a conference (Regional Scientific Conference among Youth) which was a big success. A self made and developed model has been made called Atomic Force Microscope.

At a conference

The audience

Ervin Hábel

Future plans

The above mentioned things illustrated with photos will be uploaded soon in the nanoyou blog. The nationalization of the experiments has been in progress, after that one student from every class will get acquainted with the experiments, and on that day during the Nanoday these experiments will be put into practice.
Our further plans: we are going to make Nano Roadshows in several schools of the town in the near future.

Zsolt Zsigó from Hungary

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The Santa Maria Secondary School has created the Facebook Webpage "Nanoyou-Azores Project", where we are receiving student’s articles, feedbacks, suggestions and comments about the nanotechnologies activities and multimedia resources generated by the project.
One of the great areas of the our school Nanoyou Project dissemination activities model is the massive use of the Web 2.0 technologies as Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, Animoto, Picasa, Prezi and Slideshare.
You can visit us at:
http://www.facebook.com/nanoyou.azores.project

Juan Nolasco & Sónia Castanheira
EBS Santa Maria (Azores - Portugal)

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We worked with natural nanomaterials (milk and gelatin)

The students learned that milk and gelatin are coloids and they are thermodynamically unstable.
Increasing temperature and acidity destroy colloidal structure of milk.

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Buican Mariana
School nr.2 Zimnicea

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In December 2010, a class of 16 students from the 9th grade (14 and 15 year olders) carried out the Experiment D.In the first task, the students had to research if the Taro or Azores Yam leaf (Colocasia esculenta) had superhydrophobic properties. The Azores Yam is a very abundant plant in the Azores, in fact it’s one of the most important agricultural crops in the region.In the second one, they had to know, test and experiment nanomaterials that had been modified to nano-scale to become superhydrophobic, such as Nano-Tex fabric.

Juan Nolasco & Sónia Castanheira
EBS Santa Maria (Azores - Portugal)

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