CNAO brings medical physics research to the classroom
Monica Necchi, physicist in charge of CNAO's expansion project, participated as a speaker in the project "An hour with the researcher", carried out for the 5th year secondary school students at the Liceo Edoardo Amaldi in Alzano Lombardo (Bergamo).
The event was part of a regular series of activities carried out in Italy, where high schools promote scientific research in a variety of ways. The Liceo Edoardo Amaldi organises every year online talks with distinguished Italian scientists to share their vision of research, their day to day activities, their successes, and their obstacles as well.
Since their visit of to CNAO a few years ago, the Liceo regularly invites Monica to talk about CNAO, and the applications of physics to the clinic, as well as to share with the students the main milestones in her career.
Monica talked to them about her own career, from the high-energy physics to the physics applied to medicine.
Students had the opportunity of reading Monica’s CV some days before the event, so that twenty minutes were devoted to questions and answers. Monica says: “The Q&A session is the most exciting moment for me, because they reach my soul asking why I made some choices in my life and which are still my dreams…”
She left to the students a take home message: “No matter what you would like to do in your life, if it’s not what your family planned for you! Follow your passion and your heart and you will love what you do!”