Suburban camp participants get to face Fear Factor












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            August 15th, 2011, By: Lucie Kettnerová, photo: Petr J. Juračka, Section: i-Forum informs


            The Charles University Faculty of Science decided to organize an adventure suburban camp f
            and girls aged 6–15 who are interested in nature and sciences. For a whole week from Augus

            and entertaining programme was prepared for the kids. On Monday, they were able to experie
            of contestants in the Fear Factor TV show when giant cockroaches and millipedes were crawl
            hands.

            Besides encounters with live “creepy-crawlies”, the children got to work with microscopes,
            ordinary ones but the electron type used by experts in their research. After lunch the who

            to the Hrdlička Museum of Man run by the faculty where in a playful form they learned a lo
            facts about the human skeleton.
            The pilot project of the suburban camp centred around the natural sciences theme is financ

            of the Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness supporting technical and scienc
            Thanks to that the whole programme for children is free of charge, including the costs of 
            insurance of the participants.


            We are preparing a more comprehensive report from the suburban camp. Meanwhile you can fol
            Facebooku [ URL "http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prirodovedcicz/194487817235669"] .