The National Student Travel Foundation Science Week will open its doors to students, teachers, parents and other visitors tomorrow. This year’s Science Week is being held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta.

The NSTF Science Week has, over the years, come to represent an exciting space where educators and learned people come to share their views and ideas, and this year is no exception. Fun and education have now become a defining characteristic of this foundation, and it is in this context that schoolchildren and young people will be finding solutions for their wild ideas and meet specialised scientists and crazy inventors.

How does the internal combustion engine work? How did the Maltese wall lizard evolve? What are Malta’s astronomical connections? How can folklore help advance scientific research? How and where do science and music meet?

For the past few months, NSTF has been working closely with student organisations, NGOs and other institutions in order to come up with an interesting programme of activities for people of all ages. Animators and lecturers from various fields will be presenting their ideas to different age groups and the NSTF is working hard to design a tailor-made visit for each of its visiting schools and classes. Emphasis is being placed on the educational means of supporting the visit, and the foundation will be experimenting with new worksheets that will be provided to each visitor (according to age), thus turning the visit into a journey of discovery.