The ADVACAM Radiation Education Kit is a setup of radiation camera, radioisotope sources, and accessories to better understand nuclear and particle physics
The kit brings the latest CERN technology to classrooms and allows students to discover the invisible world of radiation.
Introducing Particle Physics in the Classroom with Advacam’s MiniPIX EDU Device and Educational Kit. These tools change how particle physics is taught in schools and universities by allowing students to directly observe and analyze particle interactions. This hands-on approach helps to clarify complex ideas. The user-friendly interface and portable design of the MiniPIX EDU make it easier for teachers to include real-world demonstrations in their lessons.
Students can see radioactivity visualized on their computer screen originating from everyday materials and objects such as pieces of granite, ash, or paper bag from vacuum cleaners or face masks.
They can explore variations of the air radioactivity during the day, hunt for cosmic muons and check their directions, and see how altitude affects the presence of radiation types.
They can try to prepare their own (safe) radioactive source and try to construct the shielding against the radiation it emits. They can check the laws of radioactive decay. Students can directly observe how different radiation types interact with matter and what happens then.
Content of the Radiation Education Kit provides all the necessary equipment to conduct unique experiments right in your classroom, including a Camera holder, Collimator, and ionizing radiation sources.
MiniPIX EDU camera (detector)
Pixet Basic software
Polonium-210 (ɑ source)
Strontium-90 (β source)
Cobalt-60 (ɣ and β source)
Thoriated electrodes, thorium-232(ɑ, β and ɣ source)
Translation stage
Camera holder
Source holder
Electrodes holder
Collimator
Detector cap
Aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, and lead plates
Revolutionizing nuclear education with NASA-approved technology.
The ADVACAM Radiation Education Kit is a setup of radiation cameras, radioisotope sources, and accessories to better understand nuclear and particle physics. The kit brings the latest CERN technology to classrooms and allows students to discover the invisible world of radiation. The same technology, ADVACAM MiniPIX, is being used by NASA on the International Space Station to monitor dangerous space radiation that the astronauts are exposed to daily.
Engaging hands-on lessons bring radiation concepts to life.
Students can see radioactivity visualized on their computer screen originating from everyday materials and objects such as pieces of granite, ash, or paper bag from vacuum cleaners or face masks.
They can explore variation of the air radioactivity during the day, hunt for cosmic muons and check their directions, see how altitude affects presence of radiation types.
They can try to prepare their own (safe) radioactive source and construct the shielding against the radiation it emits. They can check the laws of radioactive decay. Students can directly observe how different radiation types interact with matter and what happens then.
Standardly observed radiation on Earth creates different patterns due to their different physical nature and interaction with the detector sensor. Cosmic muons create long line tracks through the detector volume; alpha particles create high-energy charge blobs; electrons create zig-zag patterns; and gamma creates individual dots of varied energy.
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MiniPIX EDU radiation camera for schools
Visualize radiation online with MiniPIX EDU!
MiniPIX EDU is a simplified and price optimized camera designed for the use in schools in courses of physics. Students and teachers can use it to observe the real natural radioactivity instead of just studying theory from textbooks.
