Students Dinis Melo, Ivan Cojocaru, Vasco Godinho, Ricardo Ramos and João Correia, from the Science and Technology course at the Júlio Dantas Secondary School, in Lagos, won the 2018 edition of the “Medea 9” national awards, from REN – Redes National Energetics and the Portuguese Society of Physics.
The award will be given to this team of 11th grade students on November 5th, in a ceremony that will take place at Escola Secundária Júlio Dantas.
The young Lacobrigenses, coordinated by Professor Octávia Santos, won this national competition with a work on electromagnetic fields and health.
The team, called “Júlios 9”, “carried out scientific work with the objective of identifying and measuring the low frequency electromagnetic fields that surround us and found that we live surrounded by electromagnetic fields in our daily lives: at home with our devices households, in electrical installations or in the vicinity of electrical energy transport equipment”, according to REN.
The work, which can be consulted online, concluded that the highest magnetic fields they measured were inside buildings, with short-use equipment, namely «values 40 µT for the hair dryer and 20 µT for the mobile vacuum cleaner and, at school, 72 µT for the plate heating and 63 µT for the overhead projector'.
The team from the Algarve school was also distinguished during the 21st National Conference on Physics and the 28th Iberian Meeting for the Teaching of Physics, which took place on 1 September 2018, at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Beira Interior, in Covilhã.
In the ninth edition of Medea, two honorable mentions were also awarded to as many teams of students from the Camilo Castelo Branco Secondary School, in Famalicão.
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