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1st Kastellorizo Riddle Festival
1st Kastellorizo Riddle Festival
The Science Reactors met their young friends at Kastellorizo Riddle Festival, and talked with them about Science…
Science on the «stage»! Science differently…
At the Kastellorizo Puzzle Festival, the Science Reactors tried, in their own special way with Stand up Science kids, to prove that:
Knowledge can also be delightful, it can easily reach children, spark their curiosity, thrill them and above all charm them? Difficult scientific concepts can become accessible to children.
Konstantinos Peristeris, Antonia Karamolegkou, Pavlos Isaris and Ermis Zacharopoulos presented interesting scientific topics, in a simple way and with a broad smile, aiming to win over their young audience — and not only. And they certainly succeeded!
Konstantinos Peristeris, obstetrician-gynaecologist:
a. For young children:
“Have you had your love vaccine?”
There is a vaccine that strengthens our immune system, not only against the coronavirus,
but against every kind of microorganism. It's free. It has no side effects. But they keep it secret. It's time you learned the whole truth!
b. For teenagers
“The first date”
Finally, you're going on your first date! There's so much going on in your head...
You're hoping it goes well!! And your body is running a whole bunch of neurobiochemical processes
so that you can pull it off on your date.
Antonia Karamolegkou, linguist:
a. For young children:
Topic: Conditioned learning and how to break free from the anxiety of learning.
Do dogs have a secret dialect? How can the ring of a bell make a little dog's mouth water? How can chewing gum and a little dog help us do well in a test?
We'll take a brief look at the experiments of the Russian scientist Pavlov (conditioned learning) and some of their applications in today's life. Finally, we'll talk about the anxiety that starts at a young age and follows us throughout our lives, and about smart ways to manage it from an early age.
b. For teenagers:
Topic: Instructions for “voyaging” teenagers: Ways to handle failure and rejection.
What's tastier: eating humble pie or getting a taste of rejection? How can studying and science help you get over your crush? What do neuroscientists tell us about love and the feelings of rejection and failure?
Science is all around us in simple everyday things like the feeling of love and failure. We'll look at smart ways to handle rejection and failure and briefly explain what happens in the brain when we fall in love or when we fail!
Pavlos Isaris, computer scientist
a. For young children
"Computer and thought: a wonderful invention"
How does a computer manage to think? What does a cooking recipe have to do with a robot?
Can I make a computer walk and play football?
We'll see how we manage to persuade computers to think, the mistakes we make, and what the future holds for us with computers in our lives!
b. For teenagers
"Artificial Intelligence - A guide for teenage robot trainers"
What is Artificial Intelligence? In which areas of our lives is it hiding and how will we discover it?
Are there robots that mess up and fail?
In this presentation we'll see how our favourite video game is connected to our vacuum cleaner, and how a robot can do jobs we thought were only "human"!
Ermis Zacharopoulos, computer scientist
a. For young children:
“Cryptography - The science of keeping secrets”
How can you be sure that no one is looking at your secrets?
What does Julius Caesar have in common with online shopping?
A journey through cryptography from antiquity to today. Does it look like a puzzle?
b. For teenagers
“What is hacking?”
We often hear about attacks on the internet, but what exactly does a hacker do? A presentation on the basic types of attacks, how they work, and examples from the real world.
A sign of the interest in the First Kastellorizo Puzzle Festival is the fact that it was covered by many Greek media outlets, as well as by the international press.
Plenty of photographic material from the festival's activities can be found on the page: