China News Service, Beijing, July 23 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Science and Technology Innovation and Development Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing Branch) revealed on the 23rd that the center’s theme for 2020 is "Science Lights Up Life, Exploring Mysteries in the Cloud", the third Science Communication Month event Affected by the epidemic, it was held online from May 18th to June 18th, and attracted more than 22.8 million people to participate through the popular science online content broadcasted on the whole network.
The Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held the 3rd Science Communication Month Roundtable and awarded the Gold Medal Lecturer Certificate of the Science Lecturer Group. Photo by Sun Zifa
The Science and Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held the 3rd Science Communication Month Roundtable at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the afternoon. Academician Zhou Qi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of the Center for Science and Technology, Zhou Dejin, Director of the Science Communication Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Science and Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Deputy Director Li Jing and others attended and exchanged views on the preparations, results and effectiveness of Public Science Day and Science Communication Month, the characteristics and highlights of online activities, and their views and expectations on online science communication. They believe that the third Science Communication Month launched online this year has further enhanced the social influence of the Science Communication Month of the Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and fully stimulated the public's enthusiasm for participating in scientific activities.
Deng Tao, director of the Institute of Paleospine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhou Zhonghe, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cao Zexian, a researcher of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wang Yuanzhuo, a researcher of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the roundtable meeting and shared their respective experiences in organizing and participating in popular science online activities. And exchange understanding and views on "cloud science" communication forms such as live science popularization content and short science popularization videos.
The Science Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held the 3rd Science Communication Month Roundtable and awarded the "Science Popularization Consultant" certificate to the group of popular science lecturers. Photo by Sun Zifa
At the round table, the Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also officially released the "Yunyouyi" online science popularization platform, which is an online mini program for the Chinese Academy of Sciences to achieve "cloud shopping" through panoramic VR (virtual reality). The program is designed to vividly display the scientific research results of the Chinese Academy of Sciences through multimedia interactive technology, and 360-degree panoramic VR displays the characteristic laboratories and large scientific installations of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, allowing the audience to "place themselves" in the scientific research institutes and roam the scientific world through the cloud. "Yunyouyi" aims to create a brand new online platform for the public to display the resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in depth, and to form an integrated science brand of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Science and Technology Innovation Development Center.
According to reports, this year’s third Science Communication Month is the first thematic and serialized online science popularization event of the Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During the event, a total of 8 live events were organized and planned, covering laboratory exploration, new popular science book recommendation, and dialogue with popular science experts. , Literary and artistic cultivation sharing, including the live broadcast of "Ice Core and Lake Core's Wordless Book of Heaven" from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the "A Chinese Dragon Every Day" live classroom series from the Institute of Ancient Spine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which greatly satisfied the public's interest in science. The need for knowledge.
After the round table meeting that day, Wang Yuan, curator of the China Museum of Paleozoology, also brought a popular science report on "Fossil Legend", which was also broadcast live on the whole network. (Finish)