International Experience Workshop @ Kaposvar University - December 1-2, 2011
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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE WORKSHOP AT THE KAPOSVÁR UNIVERSITY
ADVENTURES ON THE BORDERLAND OF THE SCIENCE AND THE ART
The Experience Workshop Movement for the Experience-Centred Education of Mathematics visited the Kaposvár University for the third time. Our intention was to establish cross-country collaborations through using the common language of mathematics and the arts.
- 350 Hungarian and 31 Croatian students participated in the events.
- The workshop leaders represented six countries (USA, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary).
- Besides the Croatian and Kaposvárian (Hungary) high school students staff members of the Compass Youth Association and the students of the ANK Experience Workshop, Pécs (Hungary) took part of the creative school day.
- We also had the pleasure to receive several educational professionals interested in our programmes
Programmes:
The Experience Workshop was preceded by a Mathematical Competition between the students of Petra Preradovića High School (Virovitica, Croatia) and Táncsics Mihály High School (Kaposvár, Hungary). The examples to be solved by the 40 participating students were compiled by Anna Klingné Takács, a teacher of the Kaposvár University.
After two hours hard work of solving maths examples, the next event was the opening ceremony of Robert Fathauer, American mathematician's wonderful exhibition curated by Kristóf Fenyvesi and Ildikó Szabó, the leading curators of the Experience Bridges Traveling Exhibit. In her opening talk Dr. Eleonóra Stettner quoted Godfrey Harold Hardy the prominent English mathematician's thoughts: „The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
The Experience Workshop was opened by Mihály Hepp, President of the Hungarian Croatian Minority Self-Government, Dr. László Balogh (Kaposvár University), Dean of The Faculty of Economic Science, Dr. Eleonóra Stettner (Kaposvár University), Head of Department of Mathematics and Physics, professional leader of the Cross-Border Science project, Ivana Bešir, headmaster of the Petra Preradovića Secondary School (Virovitica, Croatia) and Ildikó Szabó (ANK-Pécs, Hungary) mathematics-physics teacher and the professional leader of the Experience Workshop Math-Art Movement.
The opening presentation was held by Robert Fathauer mathematician (USA). The title of his interesting talk was Puzzles and Art Based on Tessellations and Fractals and it proved to be an excellent introduction to the exciting workshops organized and guided by the Experience Workshop's university professors, artists, teachers and game designers from six countries of the world.
Among the many interesting programs, the Zometool Quasicrystal Workshop to the honor of Daniel Shechtman, the 2011 chemistry nobel prize laureate was certainly a unique event. The 2,5 m high object is consisted by nearly 10.000 pieces and provide an outstanding illustration of DANIEL SHECHTMAN's great discovery of quasicrystals. The giant Zometool object is based upon the famous photo of H. U. Nissen, and the object was designed especially for the Kaposvár University by the team of Paul Hildebrandt, the chief developer of Zometool Inc.
Participating high schools from Kaposvár city (Hungary):
- Táncsics Mihály High School, Kaposvár
- Noszlopy Gáspár High School of Economics, Kaposvár
- High School of the Kaposvár University, Kaposvár
- Munkácsy Mihály High School, Kaposvár
- Eötvös Loránd Technical College, Kaposvár
- Toldi high school, Kaposvár
- Kinizsi Pál Vocational School, Kaposvár
- Klebelsberg High School Dormitory, Kaposvár
- Lorántffy Zsuzsanna Calvinist High School, Kaposvár
- TIT Foundation Vocational School, Kaposvár
Participating Croatian high schools:
- Gimnazija Petra Preradovića Virovitica
- Srednja škola Bartola Kašića Grubišno Polje
Other participating organizations, institutes:
- Apáczai Community Centre, Pécs (Hungary)
- Compass Youth Association
The institutes of the participating teachers, educational professionals, university students:
- Csokonai Vitéz Mihály High School, Budapest (Hungary)
- Herceg Eszterházy Miklós High School, Dombóvár (Hungary)
- Csány-Szendrey ÁMK, Keszthely (Hungary)
- University of Debrecen (Hungary)
- Apáczai Community Centre, Pécs (Hungary)
- Postgraduate Institute Kaposvár University
- Faculty of Animal Sciences, Kaposvár University
- Faculty of Pedagogy, Kaposvár University
- Faculty of Economic Sciences, Kaposvár University
The programme continues! Let's meet at Virovitica, Croatia in 2012 March where we organize a Physics Competition and an International Experience Workshop!
Prairie Churches
Showcases the diverse history and architectural traditions represented by 117 churches throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Minnesota. Prairie Public's video crew filmed prairie spires, onion domes, and steeples through four seasons. Prairie Churches explores the role churches have in sustaining the history and culture of the vanishing rural landscape of the prairie. Often the first community structure to be built and the last to close its doors, these landmarks represent the hopes and dreams of early settlers and the congregations that currently occupy them.
Vikur Lutheran; Mountain, North Dakota
Founded by immigrants from Iceland 125 Years Old
Loretta Bernhoft; Mountain, North Dakota
Willow Creek Lutheran; Overly, North Dakota
Betania Lutheran; Maxbass, North Dakota
Grong Free Lutheran; Rollag, Minnesota
St. Benedict Catholic; Wild Rice, North Dakota
Amelia Bailly Methodist; Moffit, North Dakota
Short Creek Lutheran; Columbus, North Dakota
Eksjo Lutheran; Lake Park, Minnesota
Vang Lutheran; Manfred, North Dakota
Sticklestad Lutheran; Otter Tail, Minnesota
Lom Lutheran; Petersburg, North Dakota
Grand Valley Lutheran; Sanish, North Dakota
Sts. Peter & Paul Orthodox; Wilton, North Dakota
Ladbury Union; Sibley, North Dakota
Hitterdal Lutheran; Milton, North Dakota
David Haslekaas; Milton, North Dakota
St. Jean Baptiste Catholic; St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba
Bethesda Lutheran; Williston, North Dakota
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox; Lennard, Manitoba
Trinity Lutheran; Great Bend, North Dakota
People United Church Of Christ; Scambler, Minnesota
First Presbyterian; Steele, North Dakota
Gerald Palidwor; Dugald, Manitoba
Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception; Cooks Creek, Manitoba
Msgr. Philip Ruh; Cooks Creek, Manitoba
St. Marry's Catholic Church; Dazey, North Dakota
St. Elijah Romanian Orthodox; Shellmouth, Manitoba
St. Anthony of Padua Catholic; Hoven, South Dakota
Ste. Genevieve Roman Catholic; Ste. Genevieve, Manitoba
St. John's Lutheran; Green Meadow, Minnesota
St. Mary's Catholic; Hague, North Dakota
Viking Lutheran; Maddock, North Dakota
Rolf Berg; Maddock, North Dakota
St. Joseph's Catholic; Glen Ullin, North Dakota
Tom Isern; Professor of History, North Dakota State University
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Big Valley Roundhouse Ruins
This once sprawling facility was the lifeblood of the village of Big Valley, Alberta employing over two hundred people, most of the population. Built between 1912 and 1918 to service the locomotives and rolling stock of the Alberta Midland line of the Canadian Northern Railway, this facility along with the adjoining railway station was part of the massive construction boom that overtook Alberta's railway's from 1909 to 1920. The Alberta Midland line was intended to provide passenger service and open up lands for farming in the period of settlement, and to tap the rich coal deposits around Drumheller. Sadly, the 1922 merger of Canadian Northern Railway with Grand Trunk lines, to create the Canadian National Railway, rendered the line redundant, the facility slowly fell into disuse as traffic dried up and by 1930, it was abandoned. The site was formally recognized on the Canadian Register of Historic Places in 2005 and has been preserved as one of the few remaining early western Canadian railroad maintenance structures to survive unchanged with most of it's features.
Otthon, Saskatchewan
So cold today in Otthon, and the temperature is dropping
St. Paul's Church, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Can
A Sunday morning with the Children choir. Historic church built in 1906.