Enjoying the joys of science
Children play with robot dogs.
Children wear VR glass to do waste-sorting game.
A girl wears VR glass to experience extreme weather of typhoon.
A girl experiences traditional Chinese printing skill.
The landmark Shanghai Tower is brimming with science over the weekend. Through Sunday, children can have fun in a series of interactive games, DIY workshops and science-education plays presented as followup event of this year’s science festival.
More than 30 items, which represents the country’s scientific breakthroughs, are on display in the long corridor of the B2 floor of the Shanghai Tower.
They include mockups of Xuelong 2, the first polar research vessel built by China, CR929, the first long-haul jet jointly developed by China and Russia, and Rainbow Fish, China’s latest submersible capable of diving up to 11,000 meters below the sea surface.
Not far from the exhibits, many stalls have been put up. Children can wear virtual reality glasses to experience how to survive in extreme weather such as typhoons and how to sort out garbage.
“It feels so real. I can feel the raindrops on my face,” said Qi Yu, a primary school student from Jing’an District.
A mother surnamed Wang came with her five-year-old daughter.
“I had taught her many times about how to sort out garbage, but she felt it was so boring," she said.
"Today she played the VR game to do waste sorting, and she didn’t achieve good scores. But she told me that she became interested, and she asked me to tell her more about it."
Also, children can watch through a magnifying glass to observe trilobite fossil, manipulate a model aircraft engine and experience ancient Chinese printing skills.
