Recently, the final of the 10th National Science Popularization Contest and the 2023 Hubei Provincial Science Popularization Contest came to an end in Wuhan. Two players in our city won the second and third prizes of the ** group, and the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau won the Excellent Organization Award.
It is understood that the popular science explanation contest is a national large-scale popular science explanation competition from the national to provincial and municipal levels, and is a key demonstration activity of the National Science and Technology Activity Week, which has been successfully held for nine sessions since its launch in 2014. This year's Provincial Science Popularization Contest was co-sponsored by the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Provincial Department of Education, and the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, and undertaken by South-Central University for Nationalities, with the theme of "Loving Science and Advocating Science".
Our city recommended a total of 6 contestants to participate in the competition, Wang Zihe of the Municipal Meteorological Bureau explained "Qin Tianjian Reveals the Secret of the Halo of the Sun" won the second prize of the ** group, and Zhou Wenya of the Aerospace Sanjiang Training Center explained "The Star Han is Splendid, Beidou Navigation" won the third prize of the ** group.
In order to select outstanding players to participate in the provincial science popularization competition, our city organized the Xiaogan Science Popularization Contest and invited experts to conduct on-site counseling for the contestants. While extensively mobilizing the best contestants to participate in the competition, it actively mobilized primary and secondary school students to participate, cultivating the curiosity, imagination and strong interest of the majority of young people in learning Xi scientific knowledge, and further stimulated the enthusiasm of the whole society to participate.
In the next step, the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau will organize and hold the popular science explanation contest as an important carrier of the city's popular science work, continue to increase investment, innovate the selection mechanism, send more high-quality players to the province's popular science explanation contest, cultivate and reserve a large number of outstanding talents in popular science work, and lay a good foundation for promoting the city's popular science work to a new level.