Researchers' Night 2024: This is how it was in Debrecen

This year, on Friday, September 27th Night of seekers A national event called as stated in the press conference of the event, in several buildings of the University of Debrecen (DE). Nearly 200 programs Organized around countless topics: from weeds of the Great Plain to supercomputers to meteorological aspects of air transportation, those interested can gain new information about almost anything.

When Haon employees arrived late Friday afternoon to DE's main buildingin the hall Children conducted experiments: Among other things, they made dry ice and could also learn how to stick a popsicle stick to a balloon without it bursting. Meanwhile, in the university library A With artificial intelligence You could get to know each other, and the singing groups had sessions at separate tables about AI learning methods, creating images, and they brainstormed what the school of the future would look like.

We continued our adventure on the third floor of the main building, where… Sosto Museum Village A museum popularization program was being implemented: girls dressed in folk costumes introduced interested people to the secrets of lace mixing. One floor down is real To children's paradise We've found a place where you can not only play Legos and coloring, but also face painting and glitter tattoos for the younger age group. The Institute of Philosophy was also located on the second floor Go to Olympus! The program is called a treasure hunt. An actor dressed in Greek garb welcomed the curious crowd and handed everyone a mysterious scroll.

Based on the instructions in the scroll, you had to search for codes in an escape room type room, the second level of which was nothing but the underworld. In the hall of the underworld, a woman with a face veiled in black greeted those who ventured there in the mysterious semi-darkness, before her there were skulls, candelabra, a magic ball, and tarot cards arrayed on her table. They rescued us, we even managed to turn on the light to take a picture, and we continued down to the first floor. Institute of German Studies Pseudoscience and fake news – through the eyes of a linguist We wanted to take a look at his presentation, but since they were fully immersed in the topic by then, we only caught a glimpse of the photo.