This semester, our team has not only
facilitated the ever-growing sessions in Latvia’s capital, Riga, but also
slightly expanded our reach across the country. Previously, we only held
sessions in Valmiera, Kuldiga and Ventspils, but now a new city has joined the
fold – we will also hold sessions in the regional center Rezekne.
The schools that we’ve visited thus far have
all shown willingness to continue to work together, and have asked if classes
for younger students than Grade 10 are available. As a consequence, our team
also occassionally hosts tailor-made sessions for the younger students,
involving them as well.
Kids across
the country enjoy our style of teaching physics
We’ve also done numerous projects that are
directly not connected with our sessions – our team has constructed a physics
prop (a large scale wave pendulum) for a TV show and taken part in creating
exhibitions for museums (specifically, an interactive stand about the working
principles of a light bulb, a phone and communications systems). Slowly but
surely, SYP is garnering a reputation for being able to present physics in an
interesting, educational and simple manner not only to high school students,
but to people of all ages and walks of life.
The future outlook looks good as well, with
annual projects looking to be repeated and a few new ventures lined up on our
calendars.
