The fantasy world of science is coming for Vietnamese children

At this corner, little Joe, 5 years old, put the small ball on the track, then watched it go round to the finish. The other corner, his sister, Jeannie, 7, is working hard to turn the crank to create rain.

It is a scene in the Questacon National Science and Technology Center in Canberra, Australia, the pride of the kangaroo country. Through years of research and construction, they have turned scientific knowledge into models, into the most understandable games, for children to approach and fall in love.

The boy likes to drop the ball and watch the movement
of the ball follows the tracks in Questacon Center.

In a spiral building, models are arranged from high school to advanced, so visitors, especially children, can go from the simplest knowledge and gradually 'upgrade'. . Right at the entrance is a robot named RoboQ, which can answer simple questions, laugh, wink, embrace guests to take commemorative photos.

The first booth is for mechanical machines, so that you can learn the most basic dynamics principles. You can try pressing, pushing, pulling, rotating and lifting tools here. To explain to children what inlet tubes can do, it is arranged on the wall a duct system throughout the zigzag, the air is placed from the bottom up. When putting red and blue towels at the ends of the pipes, the wind immediately pulled the towel up and up and flew out at the top. The four to five-year-old girls were afraid at first to not approach, when they saw that the uncle and wife dropped their scarves too and picked up the towels that were inserted into the tube. Then they screamed happily when I also had a miracle to make the towel fly upwards, laughing and continuing to pick up, relentlessly releasing.

Many 2-3 year old babies have been brought
Questacon to start getting acquainted, learn science.

Stepping a few steps up, the viewer was startled by the thunderous sound of thunder and thunder, while the sky was clear. It turned out that it was the sound of a giant machine reproducing the flow of water. From the tank placed under the ground, hot water evaporates to collect into clouds, charged clouds move rain down, move the reel (type of rice pounding wheel in VN) and a 'seesaw' trough to watering plants and plants.

Here, children can create music by foot when moving on the induction light system. They also witnessed an employee illustrating volcanic eruption activities with rudimentary items such as kettle, plastic pipe, soap .

Some of the children were wide-eyed and stared at the big machine drawing the magic harmonograph images, the two pictures resembling each other but each time, depending on the direction of the pendulum's movement. Curious little boys walked back and forth in front of the two ostriches and koala painted on the wall, for some reason why they came to any corner they could follow their eyes like that. When it was explained, the animal's eyes were submerged into the wall, made in 3D to create a sense of movement, they were excited.

Children and adults come here from one surprise to the other, and seem to never calm down the excitement to learn and explore. The floor area is only 10,000sq.m, but Questacon is full of interesting things.

Each year the center welcomes nearly half a million visitors, two-thirds of which are children, touching themselves, touching, launching, throwing, feeling and understanding each scientific knowledge. If you cannot explain why there is such a phenomenon, there will be grandparents, parents, teachers, and most of all the staff who are constantly on hand to explain to you on visual means. . If you are still not sure enough, you can read the explanations that are right next to the model, or visit Questacon's website to answer quizzes.

The staff illustrated and explained the volcanic eruption activity.

The Questacon Center in Australia, founded 25 years ago, is a result of cooperation between Australia and Japan, which is also a symbol of friendship between the two countries. Around the world there are about 2,400 science centers of this type, aimed at disseminating common science to children. Questacon also regularly brings traveling exhibitions to high schools and children across the country.

This year, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Vietnam, the Center first brought 'interesting science' to Vietnam. Questacon will bring 46 models, including the most basic and virtual games, on display in Hanoi (April 10-13), Da Nang (April 17-19), HCMC (24-27 April). ). Vietnamese children will be exposed to the fantasy world of physics, chemistry, dynamics, biology, natural learning . in the most vivid way, as Professor Graham Durant - Questacon Director: 'Faculty learning is to feel, practice, not just study on paper '.