Year: 2020

Interesting OER material and cancelled events

Here are two topics that are entirely unrelated:

The positive one is that I would like to share with you some great open educational resources (OER) on global navigation satellite systems and the atmosphere from a project called TRYAT (“TRack Your ATmosphere”) by the OSZ Lise Meitner school in Berlin. The material is in English, includes some phyphox activities and can be found on their website as “Intellectual Output 3: GNSS and Atmosphere”.

The unrelated bad news is that several events have been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. For the upcoming weeks, we will unfortunately not have a chance to meet at the Sinus-Congress in Bochum, the JuLe-meeting in Berlin and the DPG spring meeting in Bonn, as all three have been cancelled.

1 million installations!

At some point over the past week it finally happened: We have surpassed one million installations! (Android and iOS combined)

This is so amazing. If anyone had told me that phyphox would spread like this three years ago (our initial release was in September 2016), I would not have believed it.

We, the phyphox team, are humbled by the amount of resonance we get from all around the globe and we are grateful for all the support we get from our RWTH Aachen University, from teachers, from colleagues, from students and of course from our volunteer translators and ambassadors who help us offer the app in so many languages.

Thank you all so much! We will continue to improve phyphox and create new and unusual ideas to use smartphones in STEM education.