In childhood anyone dreamt to do something incredibly important for his planet and like a superhero to save humanity from an inevitable disaster! But for some reason, in adulthood, not every dreamer becomes a scientist and begins to look for real ways to solve global problems. A very long wait until adulthood. A dream can fly away without being realized. To avoid such disappointment, the organizers of the urban mission "Mission S2" (Sevastopol Technopark Quantorium and partners) decided to give Sevastopol children the opportunity to try themselves out as real researchers right now.
Everything worked out! Last Saturday, 120 schoolchildren were faced with the most complex environmental problems on our planet. The quest organizers prepared eight completely different locations for the participants.
One of the main sites of the project was Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS. The MHI employees constructed improvised laboratories for children where the young participants should clean the “contaminated” sand samples from pollution, to identify the materials found and to find out the decomposition time of the substances found in our planet. Future scientists worked with enthusiasm. Many of them managed to cope with the given task and identify the problem (it was pollution of the planet with microplastic). Some teams even offered original ways to solve it. So, there is hope for salvation!
For their creativity, leadership qualities and teamwork ability, schoolchildren received bonuses in the form of special stickers, equivalent to additional points.
The quest development team from Marine Hydrophysical Institute also received its bonuses in the form of many positive reviews left by the schoolchildren about our site.
Young scientists from MHI (Andrey Bagaev, Lyudmila Verzhevskaya, Sergey Svishchev, Nikolai Nikolskiy, Sergey Shcherbachenko, Sergey Mikhaylichenko) and employees of the department for popularizing scientific activities (Natalya Moroz, Alla Mukhanova) took part in the quest organization at Marine Hydrophysical Institute.