20 schoolchildren of grades 8-11 from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO) are doing an internship at JINR this week. The trip to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was their reward for winning at the Municipal stage of the All-Russian School Olympiad. On 5 December, the children visited the “JINR Basic Facilities” interactive exhibition in the Cultural Centre “Mir”, listened to a lecture at the JINR Museum of History of Science and Technology. They learned about the NOvA and JUNO projects, in which the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems JINR participates, and took a tour of the city of the location of the Joint Institute, Dubna.

Further programme of the stay of pupils includes lectures, excursions, and workshops in the laboratories of the Institute. They will get acquainted with the JINR neutrino programme, will see Medico-Technical Complex and the Phasotron at DLNP.

The main point of the programme is at the Laboratory of High Energy Physics, which is acquaintance with the NICA Megascience Project. YaNAO schoolchildren will see the MPD Detector under construction and go on excursion to the factory of superconducting magnets. At VBLHEP, they will also meet with the laureate of the All–Russian Award “For Loyalty to Science” Sergey Merts, who will give a lecture to the children “NICA – back to the future”.

At the Laboratory of Neutron Physics, pupils will visit scientific facilities of the IBR-2 Reactor: NRT, which uses the method of neutron radiography and tomography, and REGATA (neutron activation analysis).

At the JINR University Centre, schoolchildren will listen to lectures on “Nuclear reactions” and “Detectors” topics. They will participate in real and virtual workshops on electronics, scintillation telescopes, and other topics.

The guests also plan to visit the Laboratory of Information Technologies JINR, Dubna State University, and the Regional Physics and Mathematics Lyceum named after Kadyshevsky, where they will have a physics workshop.