Less positive points
The on line games were not useful for us;
We had a age problem: our students as 13 to 15 years old. Which means that we have to adapt a lot of the materials: it occurs during the first year;
Short time training in Brussels;
We didn't do collaborative work with other schools primarily because with didn't know nothing about it: each one work by themselves: I don't know why, but it happen with us: perhaps a more collaborative platform, similar to facebook? Don't know.
Our facebook was not positive: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_208165805861202&ap=1
Time project: only two years!? Now we are ready to start, with the knowledge we have gather so far.
We didn't have time to blog, only now its possible to do it, and we were learning how to do this project: now we have things to say and discuss with other schools. An we participate in a few meetings: time time time!!!

Positive points
Team support: in the beginning by the European Schoolnet team and, during the time work, special Luisa Filipponi;
Many schools interested near my school;
Students high motivation;
A site with 21235 visits: http://moodle.madeiratorres.com/course/view.php?id=588
New activities: nano solar panel; graphene and carbon tubes sculptures (will be shown in the video)
Nanoconference organization: NanoDia Madeira Torres (see on the site);
Creating relations/discussions between students, teachers and investigators;
Number of students/teachers involved: 100/20;

Future
Practice more with students the activities already in place: studying the Gratzel solar cell kit in more detail, and do research with students;
Develop a few more activities;
Organize a European Teacher Training course (1 week);
Engage in other projects with enterprises, school and university: we are thinking in enGenious.

See you all!

http://youtu.be/kcHjEmuN5eY

http://youtu.be/Dj_BqanxVgA

SCHOOL: ST.PAUL'S SCHOOL BARCELONA

TEACHERS: Christopher Peters, Gloria López-Barrena

CLASS: 1st baccalaureate - Modern World Science

Here is the presentation of one of the baccalaureate groups:

You can see the video of another group with the presentation and activities for the younger students:

nanotechaugustinmaior

Communication Technical College "Augustin Maior" Romania, Cluj-Napoca
prof. Lucia Gutu

The Team Nano of High School Francisco Simões

My students will post what they will study about Nanomaterials Electronics, Bio-nano generators, their great interest in learning nanoelectronic devices that could detect the concentrations of biomolecules in real time for use as medical diagnostics, about nanosensors. About new researches in Electronics which need to be rigorously tested and modified to be "space hardened" or resistant to the outer space environment (vacuum, microgravity, thermal extremes, and radiation exposure) and about microsats and Tiny satellites.
My students make a documentation and present to other students in school their studies about NANO WIRES FOR BETTER CONDUCTIONS. They discuss what means that for nanosatellits and for future discoveries. The existence of a set of standard components to meet the specific basic functions nanosatelites would significantly reduce both costs and time to design and assemble a space mission. By customizing each application nanosatelites the specifics can be started and completed in minimum time specialist tasks in areas such as Environment, agriculture, security, communications, science.
And also on the web will be posted the next practical lessons using nanoyou student worksheets for experiments.

Prof. Lucia Gutu

The Nanotechnology is an important unit of the modern scientific outcomes and we need to have the students get to know the facts and realities in connection with Nanotechnology instead of its beliefs and misconceptions.

That’s why we carried out a presentation for the participants about Nanotechnology, including different experiments during the project meeting organized in Hungary.
In spite of the fact, that all of the country taking part in the Nanoyou program except Greece, they didn’t have so much knowledge about the issue. We demonstrated only 2 important elements of Nanotechnology because of the lack of time.
One of them was an experimental illustration of the Lotus-effect with the help of shamrocks and also an illustration of the characteristics of superhydrophobe surfaces.

The other one was a demonstration of the Atomic Force Microscopy, with its process of preparation. The show also included how to make an appropriate device as well as different experiments and measuring that can be done with the help of it.

Zsolt Zsigó (HUngary - Nyíregyháza)

(Atomic Force Microscopy)

(Lego AFM)

First you get a DVD burner.

Also you have some tools like screwdrivers and tweezers.

Diassamble the burner, and carefully remove the burning head.

When you are done you can disassemble the head. Be careful its contains very fragile components.

You have to have tools for tiny things.

Lets disassamble the head:

First you remove the focusing lens, it is the tiny lens with a coil and two strong magnets:

When you removed that you find another lens.

Be careful the lenses are made of plastic they are extremely sensiteive for touch.

When you remove the lens you have to catch the edge of the lens!

If you are done you can protect the lens with Scotch tape because it is very clean.

Now remove everything of the head:

And place in a screw to the main hole.

Cut off three or two plastic strip of a bottle or a package like this:

Put on each other the three/two plastic trips and hole it.

So draw in a cooper wire and place a neomdyium magnet between the plastic strips:
You can find in the focusing lens instrument…

Wrap the cooper wire to the magnet placed in strips:

Have another wire to secure the magnet because its can fall off the strips.

When you are done it should look like:

Now you have a small mirror, you can find one or two mirror in the head its ideal for this work. You can secure it with epoxy.

Place to the top of the magnet placed in strips and put another hole with a sharp thing of the strip.

Well, place the strip pack to the screw like this:

So put under two magnets with the same pole of the scanning head(magnet placed in strip) they should repuls the head.

Now get a laser, you can buy a chinese laser pointer or remove of an instrument.

Place the laser to the head too, its have to point to the mirror.

Also place a measuring table in front of the laser.

If you turn on the laser it should point to the mirror and reflect to the measuring table(millimetre paper)

Here the explain picture:

Oh and i almost forgott he batteries three button cells are right.

And turn on the instrument. So take a photo with a long shutter speed. During you take the photo, you have to move the head with the laser and the measuring table.
The two magnets are repulse the small magnet in the head. When the small magnet is moving the mirror is bouncing the laser beam and point to different paces on the measuring table.
So it scans the magnetic field.

The photo should like this:

The two laser peak is the peak of the magnetic field.
The real AFM works too of this theorem. But the real AFMs pin is repulse any atoms

Authors: Ervin Hábel and Zsolt Zsigó (Hungary - Nyíregyháza)