Each year, Ibsar participates in the Days of Science, or Ayyam El Oloum, an event organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. On Oct. 20th-Oct. 22nd 39 institutions, including universities, companies, and scientific associations, exhibited their science projects in designated booths at the Beirut Hippodrome in Tayyouneh.
With the help of an army of volunteers from AUB, Project Coordinator Rana Abdel Samad, filled booth number 17 at the Hippodrome with 9 different activities and experiments.
At the entrance to the booth, Ibsar’s Have You Planted A Seed Lately? Campaign and agriculture activity was met with enthusiasm as visitors were given the opportunity to plant Native Pine and Native Oak seeds in plastic cups accompanied with instructions of how to nurse it into a tree, plastered on a colored stick. Games for different ages were also present such as the Nature Trivia and the Nature Pictionary, where visitors got to compete and be quizzed on information and pictures related to nature. Winners would either get an apron with Nature Lab and Ibsar logo on it or a pair of goggles. Coloring activities were also made available for kids, where they got the opportunity to color a coloring notebook featuring the flower Frangipani. Information about the flower in both languages, Arabic and English, were included under the drawings within the notebook, for kids to benefit from.
Ibsar’s nature-related chemistry experiments included: Chromatography (a chemical experiment on separation techniques), Eat your plate (baked dough as plates, once thrown will not harm nature), Hot Box (natural way to produce heat using exothermic chemical reactions), and Insect Repellant Sage Cream (non-chemical and non-harmful to humans).
The last experiment was vermicomposting which highlighted the importance of biodiversity in natural recycling.