"Oreste Del Prete" High School lies in an agricultural community setting in the South of Italy, Sava.
The school, at present attended by 600 students, first opened its doors to them in 1972. Computer Science is one of the main issues of "Oreste Del Prete", which is both a technical school ("Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale") and a "liceo" (scientific-technological). As a technical school, it enables students to specialize either in Information Technology or in Electronics and Telecommunications, so giving them the possibility of obtaining a professional qualification.
In both courses students are also required to study less technical subjects which provide opportunities for them to develop their knowledge in other cultural fields and to become critically thinking individuals. The result is that students are also helped with university and their future career.
As a "liceo", the school provides a still broader education aiming at finding a link between science and technology, humanistic culture and scientific issues. The curriculum, in fact, includes subjects such as Italian (language, literature and history), English (ESP and English Literature), Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, IT. The general goals of the school include: the development of intellectual ability; social and cultural understanding; personal achievement and fulfillment; the development of students' awareness of the wider aspects of living in society; the reinforcement of students' responsiveness to the needs not only of self but of others.

The school attempts to foster these objectives by providing some specific co-curricular, non-academic activities,which also enhance students' motivation to succeed at school. "Oreste Del Prete" school is supplied with many modern labs whose computers and technological equipment allow students to practice what they study at school and to live each learning experience "from

The two forms 8b and 8c of the Grammar School Schwechat and their physics teachers Prof. Lohr and Prof. Binder visited the elementary particle science center DESY ( German electron synchrotron ) in Hamburg.
On the second day the pupils formed small groups and accompanied scientists who worked there to their experiments. So they could get a good impression of the working methods of a scientist. Here you can see some small reports about the impressions of the pupils of this „Research Live„ :
A scientist in DESY by Chrisi, Evelyne, Susi, Maria.On the second day we split up in groups of four to watch different researchers. Our scientist - unfortunately we don ΄t know his name - welcomed us in a very friendly way and immediately told us of a problem they have with mice in his office. This seemed to be his biggest duty at the moment.It didn΄t look as if he were dying of stress. This phenomenon you can find very often among the researchers in DESY. When they are taking measurements for a week, they work day and night. When they are over, they have hardly anything to do for months. Our leader led us to his special project, but we only saw many computer screens and a room which nobody could enter. Next he showed us his office in which there was a creative untidiness. The walls were full of cartoons which he explained to us with visible pleasure. After that he described his current project to us by using a very picturesque way of presentation. Amongst others he tried to make us understand it with the principle of playing pools. His experiment, however, is named INELAX. At the end of the presentation our scientist ate lunch with us. While eating good food and sitting in the sun we learned much of him again. But this time it was about going out in Hamburg in the evening. All in all it was very funny and also interesting in a physical way.

Our group visited the field of work of a physicist of the department of theory at DESY. His daily routine starts by informing himself about world wide news of high energy physics in the Internet. The media Internet is also used for publishing the work of all scientists from DESY. All members of these department have to do the same. The working area of our physicist is an office with some computers, which are connected with each other. There, for example, are the characteristics of new particles charged, which are often proved weeks or months later by detectors. Later on they try to form the formula describing the newly found particle. This requires a special programming of the computer, which takes about a half year to be finished. Then you are able to enter the information into the computer. Now it is possible to say, if it is a new particle or an old one. Because the content of the work of our physicist is very difficult to understand, we are not able to give a more detailed description, although he tried to explain it to us. We hope to have given you some insight into the work of physicists of DESY with these short report.
 
   

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