Kids having fun with science
Looking into a black hole
Children use VR to learn about the heart.
A boy with Qisi, the mascot of the Shanghai Science Festival
A hot summer night was not enough to keep people away from learning the mysteries and marvels of science at the Shanghai Popular Science Park in Baoshan District.
After a day where temperatures hit 32.8 degrees Celsius, children and their parents flocked to the park on Friday to enjoy a wide range of activities offered by “Science Night,” part of the Shanghai Science Festival.
Children experienced virtual reality and augmented reality, becoming ninjas wielding a knife to cut fruits, or medical school students to watch how the heart works.
They also crowded around robots to talk about today’s artificial intelligence technologies - and even tried their hand at making their own robots.
Huge 3D-printed stars and planets hung overhead, and pictures of the universe created a wall of stars, giving the atmosphere of a romantic starry night.
Children tried to place the models of stars in their right place as to know the science behind the mysterious universe. They also looked through telescopes, imagining they were pioneer astonomer Galileo Galilei and jumped into the cockpit of a mockup moon lander.
Engineer Liu Qinghui and researcher Guo Fulai from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave talks about the world’s first close-up of a black hole - taken recently - and China’s groundbreaking lunar probes.
Children in the model of moon lander experience being flight controller
Children play with robots.
The universe through a telescope
The China 3D Printing Museum was another popular site crowded with children - and plenty of adults. There, everything, from chairs with special shapes to exquisitely-carved necklaces were printed with 3D printers.
The exhibits gave children a lesson about how traditional manufacturing industry has embraced the latest technological trends. Also, they had the chance to make 3D products with their own hands.
Several other museums - from textile to glass wooden, and porcelain - also brought exhibits and allowed children to make handicrafts in a meeting of high-tech and China's centuries-old traditional craftsmanship.
The science park in the Wisdom Bay Innovation Park - a former container yard revamped as part of the city's strategy of transforming its turn-of-the-century industrial "rust belt" into modern cultural and recreational areas - opened in 2015 as a complex of offices and workplace using renovated shipping containers.
The site has an iconic 3D-printed 26.3-meter bridge, known as the world’s largest 3D-printed concrete pedestrian bridge, across a canal on the Wenzaobang River. It is a replica of one of the China’s most famous bridges, the Zhaozhou Bridge, built in northern Hebei Province during the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-618).
According to Baoshan government, the second 3D printing carnival will be held in the site between May 30 and June 1.
Foreign visitors in a flight simulator
People look at the products of 3D printing..
