In 2020 Taiwan Science Festival, the five major science museums of the Ministry of Education and the Ten SciBases together held nearly 2000 sessions of more than 100 exciting science-based activities, attracting over 500,000 enthusiastic participants. The second Taiwan Science Festival in 2021, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology, opened on the 6th (Saturday) of this month, featuring a richer and more exciting science feast!
The National Science and Technology Museum, the organizer, planned seven major activities with Circular Economy as the theme. The activities include a popular science fair, workshops, and augmented reality games. Of which, the Circular Economy Fair invited participants from related companies, government agencies, and educational institutions to showcase the relationship between the circular economy and the aspects of life, and how we can realize a circular economy within daily life. The activities ended successfully on November 7 at the Outdoor Equality Avenue, North Complex of the National Science and Technology Museum, letting people realize that the circular economy is important for environmental sustainability through a fun and cool way!
MIRDC was invited to the festival and showcased research results on recycling for the past two years, such as how to combine recycled aluminum with foaming technology and apply it to buoyant apparatuses. The product is not only beautiful and convenient, but also environmentally sustainable. It won the 2021 iF Design Award. MIRDC even designed two popular science games, The Most Accurate Predictor and Call Me a Handmade Artisan, for children to learn more about the metal properties of recycled aluminum foam and understand how it's made through an interactive, hands-on experience, making cold, hard knowledge fun to learn.
Another highlight is the artificial coral, which is made from stone and oyster-shell waste that go through a process which adjusts the composition of the materials, transforming environmental waste into innovative green materials and forming ceramic shell molds that are resistant to high temperature casting and can be recycled. The ceramic shell mold can be applied to ceramic glaze and filter gravel. It can also be combined with 3D printing technology for restoring corals and ancient artifacts. This technology has been transferred for industrial casting and used in a collaboration with the National Museum of Marine Science & Technology to successfully attract marine microorganisms to attach to artificial corals. Utilizing artificial corals to restore artificial fish reefs is imminent.
To learn more about MIRDC's innovative technologies related to the circular economy, come visit TASS Asia's Sustainable Supply & Circular Economy Conference and Exhibition on 11/10-11/12 at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, where more technological highlights and displays await your discovery!