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ExploreScience @ULB - ULB-Inforsciences

The Inforsciences department of ULB presents a series of stands with interactive activities, exhibitions and installations around various scientific and technical themes linked to subjects studied at the Faculty of Science and the Brussels Polytechnic School: physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science…

  • Atelier 1 – Mission X - Atelier ESERO

Train like an astronaut: test your reaction time, try your skill wearing astronaut gloves or a bionic hand and explore what lies inside your own hand!

> FRI / 9:30 / 60 min
> FR / 12 people / registration required / from 8 to 12 years

  • Workshop 2 – Generative AI: Scientotheque workshop

Discover generative artificial intelligence tools, explore their uses and discuss their limitations. Explore their creativity, reliability and understanding how they work.

> FRI / 14:00 / 60 min
> FR / 12 people / registration required / from 10 to 14 years

Pre-registration is now closed

  

  • Workshop 3 – Cryptography: how to be a good secret agent!

Become a secret agent: play with the ancient scytale, decrypt Caesar and Vigenère codes, challenge the Enigma machine and discover the secrets of the RSA code still in use today!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR-NL-EN / 20 people / no registration required / from 10 years

  

  • Workshop 4 – Sink? Float? Plastics everywhere

Plastic is omnipresent in our daily lives. Plastic? No. Plastics, plural! Learn to recognise them... and recycle them better.

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 20 people / no registration required / from 6 years

  

  • Workshop 5 – Blind chemistry

Discover chemistry as you’ve never seen it! Explore mixtures, substances, and reactions using all your senses... except sight!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR-EN / 20 people / no registration required / from 10 years

  

  • Workshop 6 – The flower wheel

Flowers have secrets! Uncover them by touching, smelling and observing those in the botanical wheel.

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR-EN / 20 people / no registration required / from 6 years

  

  • Workshop 7 – Eau-rêka!

From Archimedes’ cry to passionate hydrologists, water has always fascinated scientists. Faculty of Science students present an activity to share their... thirst for knowledge!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 20 people / no registration required / from 6 years

  

  • Workshop 8 – WomInLab by WomInTech

Electronics, mechanics, architecture, telecommunications... Female engineers from the Brussels Polytechnic School invite you to explore engineering from a women’s perspective!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR-EN / 20 people / no registration required / from 6 years

  

  • Workshop 9 – Unlimited physics

ULB physicists open their collections – and their minds – to let you explore the secrets of physics: bend light, see sound, handle electricity…

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR-EN / 20 people / no registration required / from 6 years

  

  • Workshop 10 – Walking or running?

The impressive skeletons from the Zoology Museum are on display to help you understand how animals walk or run.

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 15 people / no registration required / from 6 years

  

  • Workshop 11 – Mars Robot Mission

This computer-free activity lets children discover the basics of programming by playing the roles of mission controller and Mars-exploring robot.

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 10 people / no registration required / from 5 to 8 years

  

  • Workshop 12 – The four seasons from the sky

Discover the seasons from space using satellite images. Move the Earth and the Sun to understand why it’s cold in winter and warm in summer!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 10 people / no registration required / from 8 to 12 years

  

  • Workshop 13 – Discovering exoplanets

Become an exoplanet hunter with Cheops: observe light variations using a 3D model and discover the secrets of distant worlds using the transit method!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 10 people / no registration required / from 12 to 18 years

  

  • Workshop 14 – Hot or cold? Don’t be fooled by thermal conduction!

Is everything relative? Touch, feel the heat and cold, and discover that your senses can be deceiving!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 10 people / no registration required / from 8 to 20 years

  

  • Workshop 15 – Discovering conductivity

Fruit, vegetables... and a computer: what could be more logical? Young children discover electronics while having fun.

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 10 people / no registration required / from 3 to 8 years

  

  • Workshop 16 – Fablab

Design your first 3D drawings and print your own creations!

> FRI & WE / runs continuously
> FR / 10 people / no registration required / from 10 to 20 years