They
thought they could even set a Guinness World Record with what they intended to
do, but more than that they decided to experiment and play with other children
as well. We are talking here about a project put together by the StartEvo
Association, which, through the Kidibot education platform jointly with the
Bucharest Astro-club s partners and the Science and Technology magazine managed
to build a 1: 1, 392, 700,000 replica of our solar system in downtown
Bucharest.
I
met Constantin Ferşeta,
vice-president of the StartEvo Association at kilometer zero in the Bucharest
city center while he was trying to inflate a yellow balloon, one meter in
diameter, which was going to represent our Sun. Here is what he told us.
Constantin Ferşeta: We are trying to do here something children
usually don t do in schools. An experiment. We are trying to put up some posts
with balloons, which are representing the planets in our solar system. We have
calculated their scale, s