OUTREACH
The Scientific Dissemination team of the CEPOF has been carrying out several activities in the area of Science Dissemination since 2001. Professor Vanderlei Bagnato, coordinator of CEPOF, received in 2004 the José Reis Award for Scientific Dissemination and in 2014 received the Baldacci Prize for Scientific Publishing. In the last years, 2018, 2019 and 2020, the CEPOF - in partnership with the Board of Education - won 3 prizes, in the Science and Technology category - Science Clubs, in a Prize offered by the City Hall and the City Council of the city of São Carlos. Among the most relevant CEPOF Science Dissemination actions, the following stand out: (1) Science and Technology Fairs held in schools and also in the interior of the Amazon. USP Fair of Science and Technology (2) Science Clubs, set up in the state public schools of São Carlos and region. In na important partnership with the Teaching Board of the Region of São Carlos, we set up more than 300 Science Clubs, which received free interactive educational kits donated by CEPOF, through projects of CNPq and FAPESP. The Clubs have develop different activities throughout the year, which are presented in our Science Fairs and received several kind of prize. (3) Interactive educational kits from various areas of science, which are being distributed free of charge to public schools throughout the country and especially to public schools in São Carlos, to which they have received training and didactic accompaniment. (4) Itinerant Planetarium, which is being exhibited in schools, museums, universities and public squares, taking different themes of science. (5) Scientific Workshops, one of which brought 5 Nobel Prize winners, who awarded medals to elementary and middle school students, for the Brazilian Physics Olympiad. (6) TV channel-24 hours on the air, internet classes, radio programs and columns in newspapers, where scientific, technological and innovation programs are transmitted. Internet classes have more than 200 thousand views. (7) Professor Trainings and school classes: from primary and secondary school levels, held several times a year. (8) Semoptica Exhibition – Week of Optics, held annually for 20 years, in museums, squares, schools and shopping malls in the State of São Paulo. (9) The mobile laboratory, built on a bus, with the theme "Walking on water" which receives thousands of visitors annually.
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