Activity Report 2010 - CNRS

SCIENTIFIC REPORT
Physics Olympiads
The Foundation has provided for two
consecutive years its financial support to
the “Olympiades de Physique”, a friendly
contest in which High School students
from all over France take part.
The idea is to give the participants the
opportunity to manage their own project,
according to a proper scientific approach
(involving bibliographic research,
experimental activities, and results
analysis).
In 2010, the Foundation awarded the
team from the French High School
Regnault, which developed a micro-robot
able to follow a line traced on the floor.
In 2011, 3 girls from the High School
Louis le Grand (Paris) demonstrated and
explained the behaviour of Non-
Newtonian fluids. They analysed
astonishing observations collected with
(dry or wet) corn starch or ketchup and
even simulated these changing behaviour
with specialised researchers.
Fig. 5: Malik BENKIRANE and Nawfal EL JAYID
were awarded by the Nanosciences Foundation
Prize in 2010
Fig. 6: Justine SAINT-HILAIRE, Alice CALLIGER
and Dalia BARKLEY were awarded by the
Nanosciences Foundation Prize in 2011
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