“The Instituto Superior Técnico Open Day will take place on April 18, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., featuring more than one hundred activities for all ages, with free admission. The doors of the Alameda Campus in Lisbon will be open to visitors, allowing them to discover what is taught and researched (and much more) across Técnico’s three campuses. Student, scientist, and professor projects will be highlighted at an event where visitors will also be able to tour laboratories and learn more about the School’s educational offerings.

Several research and innovation projects will be showcased in an interactive exhibition with hands-on experiences led by researchers and students. At the same time, visitors will be able to see several teaching and research laboratories in action, accompanied by professors, on guided tours led by students.”

Program

9:30: Doors Open (registration at the central pavilion)

9:30 - 17:30: Little Scientists – Experiments and fun activities for children up to 12 years old – Location: Room C9 (Floor 0 - Central Pavilion)

• Learn to build your first circuit with HackerSchool – Discover how voltage and current travel through circuits and assemble a circuit.
• Mini Makers STEAM, with the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering – Research and Development in Lisbon (INESC-ID) – Decode secret messages and build small circuits to understand how codes protect information and how electronics are present in everyday objects.

Lab Visits (various times)

• 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30: Levitate the Future: Superconductors and Mobility – Understand physical phenomena through experiments with superconductors and magnetic levitation, with Professor João Fernandes (Electrical Machines Laboratory).
• 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30: ISTairport – Airport Runway Model – Model of an airport runway, key technologies and demonstration of the Instrument Landing System for low-visibility landings, with Professor Pedro Vítor (Advanced Instrumentation Laboratory (Lab. IA)).
• 11:30 | 12:30 | 14:30: The Most Efficient Car in Portugal – Visit the space where key components of Portugal’s most efficient car are prepared and assembled (PSEM Workshop).
• 11:30 | 12:30 | 14:30 | 15:30: Robots at Home, with the SocRob@Home team – Explore a full apartment inside a laboratory used to test robots that perform household tasks (Institute for Systems and Robotics).
• 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30: Técnico in Orbit: University Satellites – Presentation of the ARGUS nanosatellite: remote control demonstration, image capture, and reception at the ground station, with Professor Gonçalo Tavares (LPT Laboratory).

Courses and Pathways (various times)

• 10:00 – 10:30: Electronic Engineering (GA2);
• 10:30 – 11:00: Electrical and Computer Engineering (GA2);
• 12:00 – 12:30 and 14:00 – 14:30: Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering (GA1)
• 12:00 – 12:30 and 14:30 – 15:00: Aerospace Engineering (GA2)

9:30 - 17:30: Science Fair – Meet research units and student projects with demonstrations and experiments – Location: Noble Hall (Floor 1 - Central Pavilion)

• The most efficient car in Portugal (Mobile Energy Sustainability Project);
• Design, build and compete: Formula Student (FST Lisboa);
• Railways, the backbone of mobility (ISTrain);
• The future of mobility (Técnico Fuel Cell);
• Robotics and sustainability (Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS)) – Demonstrations of tools for climate neutrality (IN+: 9:30 – 13:30). Dynamic demonstrations of robotics, AI and systems engineering (ISR: 13:30 – 17:30);
• Autonomous robots for emergency assistance (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering – Research and Development in Lisbon (INESC-ID));
• The EmoShow (INESC-ID) – Can a robot influence the behavior and feelings of two people playing a game?
• How to make ports more sustainable! (INESC-ID).

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