950 Students Visit BoM’s Open Days

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The Bureau of Metrology organized “Open Days” for elementary and high school students from 7 to 25 May 2018.

In this period, the Bureau’s laboratories have been visited by 950 students from elementary and high schools all over Montenegro.

Students from the following 15 elementary schools visited the Bureau of Metrology: „21. maj“, „Božidar Vuković Podgoričanin“, „Milorad Musa Burzan“, „Savo Pejanović“, „Vlado Milić“, „Savo Kažić“ and „Vladimir Nazor“ from Podgorica, elementary school students from „Jovan Gnjatović“ and „Jagoš Kontić“ from Nikšić, „Maršal Tito“ and „Boško Strugar“ from Ulcinj, as well as students from elementary schools „Dašo Pavičić“ from Herceg Novi, „Orjenski bataljon“ from Bijela, „Dušan Obradović“ from Žabljak and „25. maj“ from Rožaje.

Students from six high schools have also paid a visit to the Bureau of Metrology, namely students from „17. September“ Mixed Secondary School from Žabljak, Vocational Secondary School „Ivan Goran Kovačić“ from Herceg Novi, Grammar School from Cetinje, vocational secondary schools “Ivan Uskoković“ and „Spasoje Raspopović“ and „Slobodan Škerović“ Grammar School from Podgorica.

This year’s „Open Days“ mark the fifth annual event organized within the celebration of the World Metrology Day, commemorated on 20 May in over 80 countries.

This year's World Metrology Day was commemorated under the theme “Constant Evolution” of the International System of Units (SI).

The theme was chosen with regard to one of the biggest changes of the International System of Units (SI) since its establishment, which is expected in November 2018. In the revised International System of Units, kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole will be redefined in terms of constants. The result of this change will be a simpler definition of the whole International System of Units and the abandonment of the definitions of the last three units based on the material artefact – the International Prototype of the Kilogram.

In addition to the changes in definitions of the International System of Units, the students were also presented with the national measurement standards in national calibration laboratories in the field of metrology of mass, pressure, length, electrical quantities, temperature, volume, time and frequency.