Accept the challenge and discover “Tales of Change” for all ages at this year’s ASF that celebrates its 10th anniversary

How does a crime that needs to be solved turns the Technopolis City of Athens into the scene of “CSI: Athens Science Festival”? How is an unmanned aircraft created? What happens to the Sun during the summer? Can Artificial Intelligence translate Borges?

These are the first of a series of challenges that visitors to the Technopolis City of Athens, from April 16 to 21, will be asked to accept. Through them, they will discover exciting stories of science, technology, and innovation, as part of the Athens Science Festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. “Tales of Change” that will challenge visitors to broaden their perspective and rediscover a world that is constantly changing.

Would you like to find out more about the first challenge? The Physics Experiments Group of the 1st General Lyceum of Vrilissia invites you to an interactive, crime scene investigation game in order to “Find the Guilty One!”. Each aspiring detective will have the opportunity to investigate and solve a “crime” in an experiential way, by using scientific methods and methodologies. In “CSI…Athens Science Festival”, the students themselves become detectives and with logic, imagination and a little help from Sherlock Holmes, they discover and reveal the culprit among us!

As for the second challenge, the floor is given to EUROAVIA Athens, an affiliated society of the European Association of Aerospace Students. The team, which is supported by the National Technical University of Athens and most of its members are students from the School of Mechanical Engineering, will inform you about aeronautical issues and through a surprise exhibit will reveal to the visitors how it designs, develops and constructs unmanned aircrafts.

The third challenge, codenamed PeriAstron, involves observing the Sun with a telescope. The Sun is the closest star to Earth and as it approaches the peak of its activity, observing its surface is easier than ever. Using a specialized solar telescope, ASF visitors will have the opportunity to examine the various formations – such as sunspots, filaments, and prominences – that characterize the surface of the brightest star in our sky. So, since “PeriAstron” is the topic of discussion, ASF scientists will take you on a tour to the Sun’s mysterious surface, while also introducing you to the wonderful world of astronomy.

Through the fourth challenge, the Ionian University – Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, invites you to a workshop for adults entitled “Jorge Luis Borges and Google Translate”. If it is difficult for a translator to render a poem written in another language into Greek, how well could an Artificial Intelligence do it? The team of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University will guide us to become poets for a day, by translating a poem by the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges with the help of Google Translate.

Accept the challenge and discover “Tales of Change” for all ages at this year’s ASF that celebrates its 10th anniversary!

April 16-21, 2024 | Athens Science Festival | Technopolis City of Athens

Stay tuned to the Athens Science Festival 2024 website and social media: New challenges of disruptive discoveries will be announced soon.