Ludic-Scientific Party 2017 CID-CSIC

The day October 28, 2017 was not a Saturday like another for the CID-CSIC and neither for the people who work in this center during the week. With 50 years of age, the buildings of the center should not spend another Saturday in solitude, so they had the honor of welcoming hundreds of workers who came with their families and friends for the ludic-scientific fun party 2017.

The day promised a lot for young and old, scientists and non-scientists. 

Morning started with a neuromagic show. Nadia Santamaría Gálvez fascinated the audience with a magnificent mixture of neurobiology, illusionism and magic. People left the room with a doubt that will remain for life: what we perceive is reality or is our brain that generates illusion?
... although for reality, the games that the children found when they went to the CID garden: Human football, inflatable racecourse and many games based on scientific concepts..

And if until that moment the birds were the only ones that accompanied the day with their musical twittering, the rhythmic and dynamic music of Zumba came to dominate from the dance stage! The lab coats were replaced by sports clothing and a group of people were encouraged to lose calories by dancing. I guess they knew that soon they would eat the giant paella that was being prepared right now.

At 13:00 the reward finally arrived: the food. A delicious paella that was served for everyone and that could be tasted at the tables that were installed in the garden.

One of the objectives of the day was to disseminate the research that is being developed in the center. That is why some of the most active researchers in terms of the scientific dissemination of the center-Yoran Beldengrün, doctoral student of the IQAC-CSIC, and Òscar Aznar, PhD candidate of the IDAEA-CSIC-carried out a memorable show, each one explaining science to his way: Dr. Willy, as he calls himself Yoran on stage, explained chemistry concepts based on experiments with chocolate, with a foam volcano and demonstrating an example of molecular cooking, spherification, according to Ferran Adrià. All that would not have been possible without all the young assistants of the public who helped him in the execution and in the explanation of the experiments.

Òscar continued with a Disney musical although, instead of those beautiful texts that make us cry, he proceeded to replace the lyrics of the songs of The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Frozen, Aladdin, Pocahontas etc., by explanations of his study in which he compared the presence of pyrethroid insecticides in raised and wild salmon.

The party culminated with online dances and a scientific gymkhana that some researchers had prepared for the young people who came to visit and celebrate the birthday of the CID-CSIC. On a tour through the center's facilities, the different groups had to pass several tests that required skills that good researchers also need: knowledge, perseverance, creativity, concentration and logic.
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In summary, the scientific ludic party of the CID-CSIC has been a great success that has allowed the people closest to the researchers to obtain a good perspective of the life of the center, at the same time as it has collaborated to strengthen the relations between the workers.