Why are the objects seen by the human eye three-dimensional? Why are swifts from Beijing? On April 26, the supporting activities of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference sponsored by the Beijing Haidian District Association for Science and Technology - Haidian Outdoor Science Popularization Activities were officially launched in Haidian Park. It is understood that nearly 2,000 primary school students participated in this entertaining activity on the first day.
Haidian Park was built on the site of Changchun Garden, one of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" of the former royal gardens, and is a garden integrating natural atmosphere, cultural heritage and fashion sense. Walking through it, the fragrance of flowers is overflowing. Not far from the East Gate, there is an area that is particularly lively, because the outdoor science popularization activity "Science Makes the Future" is being held there.
It is understood that the event is one of the more than 20 supporting activities organized and planned at the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference. The event continued in Haidian Park from the 26th to the 27th.
"I saw the moon, astronauts, rockets, the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft." As soon as a fourth-grade elementary school student from Twin Elms came out of the Tiangong-1 experience capsule, he excitedly described the space scene he had seen through VR technology. He said that through VR technology, he was able to see the scenery in space, and felt that the moon was right in front of him, and he could touch it as soon as he stretched out his hand.
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily saw at the scene that new technologies and new product areas such as AR, VR, MR and so on were the most popular, and there was a queue phenomenon at one point, and participants could experience skiing, racing, space capsules, etc. on the spot. It is understood that the popular science interactive experience area of this event is based on the popular VR, AR, MR technology, so that the public can feel the charm of science and technology in the audio-visual feast. VR bicycles, VR skiing, VR shooting, VR motorcycles and other interactive experience equipment are set up. At the same time, scientific and technological equipment such as humanoid robots, IQ robots, soft robots, bionic magic academies, and quantum dot spectral sensing technology are set up to allow participants to experience the fun and creativity brought by digital technology.
The artificial intelligence achievement exhibition area set up on site brings together the latest scientific and technological achievements in cutting-edge fields, with rich and colorful levels. It covers advanced technology and equipment such as intelligent chips, emergency rescue drone systems, fully biodegradable masterbatches, acoustic imagers, etc., so that everyone can share the sense of happiness and gain brought by scientific and technological progress.
Through vivid and interesting sharing, the popular science education area brings scientific knowledge to life. There are product contents such as a competition table for confrontation robots, fossils from the dinosaur period, dome movies, and astronomy classes. At the same time, a special "Youth Science Camp" is set up to stimulate the spirit of scientific exploration in nature and plant the seeds of scientific and technological innovation.
The theme of this event is "Science Popularization Achieves the Future", which popularizes scientific knowledge, improves the scientific literacy of the whole people, and drives the development of the new era with new quality productivity by showing the scientific and technological and scientific research achievements of Haidian District. At the opening ceremony, Meng Fanxing, vice chairman of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, pointed out in his speech that at present, Beijing's science popularization is booming, the scientific quality of citizens is rapidly improving, the pace of integrating science popularization into all fields and links of economic and social development is accelerating, and the high-quality development of science popularization has promoted high-level scientific and technological innovation to achieve remarkable results.
Wu Baohua, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Haidian District People's Congress, said that as a national science popularization demonstration area, Haidian District anchors high-quality science popularization services and establishes a high-end science popularization "Haidian model". It has created a "big science" pattern with the participation of the whole society, and formed a "community" of science popularization with the joint efforts of the science association system, scientific research institutions, science popularization bases, and high-tech enterprises. According to reports, the construction of the "City of Science and Technology Museum" is an important measure for Haidian to create a "big science" pattern with the participation of the whole society, and all kinds of laboratories, museums, libraries, cultural centers, etc. with popular science functions are intertwined into a popular science network, so that high-quality scientific and technological popular science resources are strung together into a chain, forming a "magnetic field" of popular science, so that the science and technology venues can truly become a resource and power that can be approached, participated and learned independently by the public. At the opening ceremony of the outdoor science popularization activity, seven new member units of Haidian "City of Science and Technology Museum" were awarded, including the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd., Core Vision (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., Cambrian Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Dabeinong Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd., and Beijing Software Center Co., Ltd. of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Song Xia
Editor/Fan Hongwei