Science Festival opens in Belgrade

BELGRADE - The 8th Science Festival entitled "Everything is Possible" was opened at Expo Center in Belgrade on Thursday.

"The Festival has a great slogan, but no one is here because everything is really possible, but rather because they want to get an answer how something is possible, because that is the very question that science is trying to respond to," Serbian Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Srdjan Verbic said at the opening ceremony.

In his welcome address to the visitors, Verbic said that it is a great challenge to do science, and even a greater one to organize a science festival.

I invite you all to be scientists today, since you are expected to do so, the minister said, adding that he would like this festival to be renowned worldwide.

The Science Festival will last by December 7, and held at three locations: Zepter Expo Center, the Students' Cultural Center and the Gallery of the National Bank of Serbia.

The visitors will be able to dabble in forensics, to see how food was prepared in the Neolithic period, to find out where the toothache comes from and how a solar cooker is being made and many other things.

The Students' Cultural Center will lay focus on science shows and plays that will demonstrate that knowledge and science make everything possible.

The Gallery of the National Bank of Serbia will host the Green Zone, which will acquaint the visitors with the benefits of recycling.

Some of the issues that will be raised include how to make a gym out of recycled material, how to trap time in a can, who are the urban predators that watch us from the sky and how a hot air engine works.

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