Xperimania winners announced: European students show how to make science fun

Interest in their baby cousins’ nappies has brought victory for Jack M and Nicola B from Glasgow, UK, in the Xperimania school competition. The 'Check out the property!' competition aimed to promote science education with easy and fun experiments on properties, materials and their impact on daily life.

 
 


 
 

Xperimania activities in Physics and Chemistry for a whole class

To help teachers make science lessons more fun and interesting, Xperimania, now in its second year, will concentrate on the properties of familiar objects and how chemistry contributes to them. The first entries in this year’s Xperimania competition “Check out the property” show a good example of how to benefit of the activities in a class room.

 
 

Students quiz an expert on how chemistry contributes to developing greener and safer cars

This spring’s last Xperimania science chat on 23 March, 2009 taught students about the contributions of chemistry in the automotive industry.