Ten students of 7 and 8 years of the CEP Lamiako School together with their tutor Boni Rodríguez and the director of the center, Begoña Magro, have participated in the four workshops organized by the General Research Services (SGIker) of the UPV/EHU last day June 7th in Leioa (Bizkaia Campus), in collaboration with the Department of Education and Participation of the City Council of Leioa. The workshops are part of the second edition of the Eskola Sgiker Program implemented in the 2018-2019 academic year within the STEAM activities (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) aimed at awakening the interest of young children towards scientific activity.

The workshops have been developed in the Martina Casiano building, and have been taught by the technical staff of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Services, X-Rays, Molecules and Materials, Bizkaia and Fitotron Animation and Greenhouse. After being received by the director of SGIker, Maribel Arriortua, in the hall of the building, the 7 children and 3 girls, expectant and excited, with their corresponding identification cards, bags and their notebooks to write, went first to the workshop given by the coordinator of the Sgiker, Iñaki Echevarria. There they learned the changes of the state of the matter according to the temperature and the composition of the color, creating themselves funny soaps with glycerin.

While the soaps took their final form, they went to the laboratory to observe, through the microscope, everyday objects such as salt and sugar, by the hand of doctors Aitor Larrañaga and Leyre San Felices, checking for themselves how the matter is arranged.

After the lunch of fruit and cookies to regain strength, the group of school children of Lamiako, arrived at the third workshop led by doctors Maribel Collado and Azucena González, who in an entertaining and very practical way explained the concept of chromatography, getting to tune their own t-shirts with different shapes and colors, stimulating their creativity and using chemistry at the service of fashion.

Then, the students of Lamiako College, checked very graphically how animals live in a laboratory and the benefits of its use in the investigation of diseases of both humans and animals, and after the explanations of Dr. Arantza Alejo and Lic. Maite Fuentes were able to assemble cages for their accommodation. In addition, Maite Fuentes,  tell them  the story with which  won the Children's Short Story Contest of the Spanish Society for Laboratory Animal Sciences (SECAL) in its edition of 2017: "The History of Mussi. The importance of being a laboratory animal. " With great attention and expressions of "I want to be a veterinarian", the group of school children understood the importance and necessity of experimenting with animals for the advancement of science.

Because of the questions they asked and their expressive faces, it can be said that the experiments carried out appealed to them and they understood much more than what was supposed a priori. It should be noted that at all times and despite their young age, primary school students of CEP Lamiako College were very active,  taking notes and participating with questions and doubts about the experiments and their results.