On the 5th of April, the student representatives from IRB, IBEC, CRG, ICN2 and ICFO together with the BIST organisation successfully conducted a first joint BIST PhD welcoming cool-off at the AILAIC venue, close to the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
More than 70 PhD students from six different BIST institutes gathered to tackle the challenge of a quiz and to network with their peers. The event started with a brief overview of BIST by Núria Bayó, the Head of Academic Programmes & Organizational Effectiveness and then PhD representatives presented the research focus and student initiatives of their respective institutes.
Following the introduction, the fun began! The PhD attendees were divided into inter-institutional teams and had to find the answer to a science quiz as fast as possible. The organisers had conceived a multi-choice quiz with questions covering the research foci of the BIST institutes, using the online quiz platform Kahoot. Would you have known that Mendel demonstrated the role of heredity or that the h-bar is an important physical constant? For the last task, some students were asked to volunteer to draw something, while the others had to correctly guess what the drawing of the brave volunteers represented. Think how you would be able to depict a neuron, a laser pointer or an electromagnetic wave! At the end, the points for the teams were tallied. It was a close showdown and the three winning teams had to share the prize which consisted of a bottle of Cava and some chocolates.
A Neuron!
