Sixth Graders danced to negative numbers
Programming their own robots, measuring the sky and the temperature of clouds, as well as dancing to negative numbers were some of the activities that students from Stora Sätraskolan in Gävle and Björksätraskolan in Sandviken got to try during ForskarFredag at the University of Gävle.
The concentration was high as Leo Svensson and Elliot Rönndin, from 6B at Björksätraskolan, built and programmed a car out of Lego. In the background we see Oscar Bautista Gonzales, a PhD student in electrical engineering at the University of Gävle, who led the activity with the robots.
The University of Gävle and Work Package 5 (WP 5) of the European University EU GREEN, of which the University is a member, organised this year’s ForskarFredag. The University welcomed sixth-grade students from Stora Sätraskolan in Gävle and Björksätraskolan in Sandviken. Together with the University’s researchers and PhD students, the students could experiment and try out various activities.
Rebecca Maombi, Larissa Halal, and Lydia Mugisha, from 6B at Björksätraskolan, built and programmed a dancing robot together. "Fun!" they said, and they’d love to do it again.
In the video above, students from 6C at Stora Sätraskolan worked with negative numbers in a slightly unusual way—through dance! "Dancing to negative numbers" was an activity led by Maria Cortas Nordlander, a mathematics researcher at the University of Gävle
The University’s ForskarFredag is part of European Researcher´s Night. 
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Text, photo and video: Marie Hägg Zetterlund
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