By Guadalupe Rivera
Photo
by: G. Cerón
Ciudad
Serdán, August 30, 2004.- INAOE's researchers,
students and administration presented an exhibition of
the LMT during the Feria of Ciudad Serdán on the
28, 29, and 30 of August, 2004. Thousands of people of
Ciudad Serdán and the surrounding area enjoyed
learning of the LMT project.
Photo
by G. Cerón
The
exhibition was organized as part of the Outreach Program
that INAOE's Astrophysics Department and the LMT Project's
Office have implemented with the support of the government
of Ciudad Serdán.
The
exhibition consisted of many photographs of the construction
site, a scale model of the LMT, posters, videos and
scientific films. A special section for children allowed
them to make their own paper models, view physics experiments
and magnetic puzzles, and receive gifts. The models were
a radiotelescope and the space shuttle Atlantis, and were
built with paper, glue, and scissors. There magnetic puzzles
were images of the planets. At the end the children received
balloons and candies.
Photo
by
G. Cerón
Based
on comments giving in the exhibition guest book, many of the citizens of
Ciudad Serdán and surroundings had indeed been aware of
the LMT project previously. But now, thanks to the exhibition, they can
better appreciate how the project will result in educational and cultural
benefits for their community.
Photo
by
G. Cerón
The
exhibition participants were Dr. Esperanza Carrasco –who
organized the exhibition with Janina Nava- Dr. Alberto
Carramiñana; Dr. Guillermo Tenorio Tagle; Dr. Abraham
Luna; MC Pablo Barrera; Dr. Jazmín Carranza –of
the Optics Department-; Jacobo Ramos, who works with Dr.
Jazmín in the Coulor Laboratory; Gaby López,
who design some posters and a brochure (there were given
more than one thousand LMT brochures in two days of Feria),
and Guadalupe Rivera.
We
would like to thank especially to Gorgonio Cerón
(Choco), Juanito Montes, Pedro Técuatl Jorge Cielo,
Jorge Soto, Leoncio Toxqui and Mari --our dear secretary
of LMT in Atzintzintla--.
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