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Jubilee lecture hall in Dubna schools

At the suggestion of JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov, on the eve of the celebration of the 70th anniversary, the University Centre prepared a three-week series of lectures for schoolchildren with features of career guidance: popularization of science and technology, the history of their development. The lecture programme covered not only JINR's regular partners in holding Physics Days and other popular science events, but also all state educational institutions of the city.

Lectures were given by the leading methodologist of the UC Petr Shirkov. In them, he focused on the key scientific event of the year for JINR and the entire world science - the launch of the Nica Collider, as well as the research capabilities and expected significant results of other major JINR projects: the Superheavy Element Factory, the Baikal Neutrino Telescope and the IBR-2 reactor.

The basic content of the lectures concerned the popular and accessible report of various subjects related to the history of science and development of technology, with the development of scientific and engineering thought from ancient times to the present. So, at the lecture "Time machine and the secrets of the pyramids", students of grades 5-6 learned about how the union of specialists in various fields (historians, archaeologists, linguists, astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers) helped to reveal some of the secrets still surrounding the great Egyptian pyramids.

During the lecture "How to carry out research: miracles around us", students of grades 7-9 learned about how important it is to describe all the steps of research that subsequently helps historians of science and technology to restore justice in the primacy of discovering vital knowledge about the world around them.

High school students, that is, the students of grades 10-11 that attended the lecture "Current education and technological sovereignty", learnt about some pages of the development of science and technology in the Russian Federation, the country of residence of JINR that rightfully allow them to be proud of Russian scientists and engineers that have contributed to the development of technological sovereignty of the USSR and Russia. In these lectures, schoolchildren also learned what role education plays in it.

With the support of head teachers and school principals and thanks to the organizational support of the employee of the Department of International Cooperation Irina Zelenkova, over the three weeks of this "marathon", 20 lectures have been given in nine schools that have been attended by more than 1,400 students - more than a quarter of the city's middle and high school students.

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