The last weekend of September is traditionally known for hosting the Researcher’s Night – the perfect pretext for scientists to bring their knowledge closer to public and to spark curiosity in children of all ages. We participated to the event in two different locations: Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and Magurele, the “research capital” of Romania. 

Everyone that visited our booth was invited to travel around the Solar System with the Virtual Reality (VR) glasses. The guided tour of the planets was developed by two of our colleagues, Dr. Ana Caramete and Dr. Laurentiu Caramete, transporting the cosmic travelers beyond the furthest place their imagination ever taken them! Once they would land back on Earth, my colleagues and I would put to a test the newly acquired knowledge of the “crew” with the SpaceQuizz  

 

And that’s not all! Our teammate, Alice, as a proud member of the Km3NeT collaboration, always mesmerizes visitors by showing them one of the optical modules that was actually on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea as part of the ANTARES experiment!