Scientific workshops
During April
Temporary exhibitions
Plane geometry without instruments
By Mr. Néji Al Ahmadi
On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11.00 am
This workshop is about Euclidian geometry. The participants will learn more about the simple technique of folding. During this workshop, the scientific mediator will deal with the notions of side, summit, diagonal, centre and angle.
The right proportion
By Mr. Abdelfattah Selim
On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 3.00 pm
During this workshop children will learn more about the relationship between mathematics and their bodies while doing some simple calculations related to the proportions of their hands, mouths, bodies and faces.
During May
Explora pavilion
Lamps… and lights
By Mr. Riadh Abdelli
On Sunday, May 3rd 2015, at 10.00 am
What are the different types of lamps? What kinds of radiations do they produce? From what are they constituted? By which luminous colors are they characterized? During this workshop we will talk about incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, sodium, mercury-vapor, and LED lamps and the energy consumption, as well as the functioning principles of these lamps.
Synthesis of vanilla
By Mr. Haythem El Euch
On Sunday, May 3rd 2015, at 11.00 am
Vanilla is a molecule extracted from vanilla pod. However, synthetic vanillin is a molecule extracted from cloves and it is identical to the natural vanillin. Indeed, eugenol is present at its natural state in cloves and has the same characteristics of taste and smell. This component is afterward transformed into vanillin.
Scientific exposés
During May
Life and Man pavilion
I have tears in my eyes
By Mrs. Karima Sleimi
On Wednesday, May 6 at 3.00 pm
The main objective of this exposé is to explain and answer all the questions of the public including children and adults about the reason behind our tears, how people cry, and from what the tears are composed, their origins and their different types. Explanations about the lacrimal system, the lacrimal glands, the eye structure and the chemical composition of the tears will be provided through a series of scientific demonstrations.
Fruits and vegetables: colors and values
By Mrs. Karima Sleimi
On Wednesday, May 13 at 3.00 pm
The main objective of this exposé is to make people aware about the importance of varying the colors of fruits and vegetables in our plates and the benefits from mixing them. We propose a menu of a week combining three colors of food each day. For instance we eat on Monday red, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables, Tuesday; brown green and mallow etc. We indicate at the same time the contribution of the vitamins, the minerals and the antioxidants of each color. It enables us to know the combination of colors we should make each day to prevent ourselves from potential diseases.
World Earth Day
On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 10.00
On the occasion of the World Earth Day celebration, the Tunis Science City has elaborated a programme including various activities dedicated to the large public. Workshops such as “Living with the Sun”, “Cretaceous”, “Earth anger” and “Renewable energy”, as well as a lecture about water and soils preservation in Tunisia are parts of the programme. A whole space in the Life and Man pavilion will be entirely dedicated to the “Researcher, and a hand-on exhibit” workshop.
Researcher and a hand-on exibit
On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 10.00am
By Mr. Anis Aouini, engineer at INSAT
This workshop will be presented by Mr. Anis Aouini, an engineer at INSAT. The latter is the inventor of the “Saphonian”; the wind turbine of the future. It is inspired from the sailboats technology and characterized by the absence of blades.
Explora events
During May
On Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 at 10.00 am
As every year, the public of the Tunis Science City is invited to discover the scientific animations in the open air on Sunday, May 3rd, 2015. It is a good opportunity to initiate children to science while participating in many experiments. The programme enables the visitors to have an idea about different funny scientific principles such as water rockets, static electricity, pressure, synthesis of vanilla, and chance calculation. Competitions will be organized and winners will be rewarded.
Researcher and a hand-on exibit
On Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 at 11.00 am
By Mr. Salah Jallali, assistant professor at CERTE The Tunis Science City, REACT and CERTE will present during the Explora Day a hand-on exhibit. It will be shown by Mr. Salah Jallali, an assistant professor at CERTE. This hand-on exibit focuses on the importance of liquid wastes, removal and recycling of nutriments from aqueous solution for an eventual transformation in biological fertilizer with chemical reactions.
