Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Museum of History of Science and Technology of JINR

Mendeleev readings

The head of the department "Origami" of Municipal Education Center I. Glagoleva acted with the initiative to organize at the Museum of the History of Science and Technology JINR scientific conference titled "Mendeleev readings". The Council of the Museum supported this initiative and decided to make it annual.

The task of the initiators and organizers of the readings is to enable children (elementary and middle classes )who are interested in a variety of scientific phenomena, describe them clearly, intelligibly, fascinatingly not only within their classes, study groups in the classroom, but in a different audience, in this case - at the Museum of JINR.

Why readings are called Mendeleev? This question is answered by I. Glagoleva: Mendeleev, his devotion to science, his versatile genius, his achievements in various fields of science should be an example for those who want to profess science and technology, to stand on way of knowing. The first steps in this direction have already been made by participants of readings.

Photos from the readings are in the section "Photogallery".

January 2013 - The first Mendeleev readings

The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous scientist, academician G.Flerov.

Every evening during the week and at the closing ceremony on Saturday about 30-40 children were coming, more than a dozen children and four teachers made presentations and demonstration experiments. They were accompanied by colorful presentations on the big screen.

14 papers were devoted to various topics:
- Inventions (" How invented the camera", "Batteries from potatoes", "As a man learned to fly");
- Natural phenomena ("Rainbow", "Dolphins - the people of the sea", "Snakes - first acquaintance")
- Practical research ("An ant on a Mobius strip", "How do we measure the speed of light",
"How do we measure the radius of the Earth").

Each speaker had the research supervisor, teachers of the Education Center - S.Pisareva, I. Glagoleva, V. Rybin. Many parents took an active part in the preparation of the conference, even there was a family duet: A. Denikin and his daughter Arina made scientific reports.

The last day - solemn closing of Mendeleev readings with start in the sky of "magic" small lamps, tea drinking and rewarding - will be remembered to children.