Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 2–6, 2020; Denver, Colorado
Session G06: Adventures in Outreach and Engaging the PublicEducation Outreach Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: FOEP Chair: Shireen Adenwalla, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Room: 113 |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11:15AM - 11:27AM |
G06.00001: Breaking Down Barriers to Science and Physics Communication in China - Do Veritasium YouTube Videos Translate? Hanyu Zhang, Derek Muller Educational content on YouTube has seen incredible growth and gotten significant traction. Physics-focused YouTube channels are no exception. From the earliest days of education on YouTube, Veritasium [1,2], an educational physics YouTube channel now with over 6 million subscribers and 650+ million views, has educated and engaged the general public about physics. |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11:27AM - 11:39AM |
G06.00002: Physics to Environmental Science: Solution Seeker of today’s world Libia Hazra, N. Srinivas In this talk I share my journey as a solution-seeker to restore the natural state of our environment as I move from an agriculture-based society into studying physics and then switching into environmental science to help develop a sustainable environment and a culture of high-yielding organic farming. |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11:39AM - 11:51AM |
G06.00003: Share your research at FunSize Physics Shireen Adenwalla, Jocelyn Bosley, Leigh M Smith www.funsizephysics.com is a colorful, user-friendly website created in Spring 2016 with the express purpose of showcasing exciting new developments in condensed matter physics to a broad audience of non-experts. The research descriptions are written by the researchers themselves, serving as an efficient, low bar broader impact activity in a PI’s portfolio. Google Analytics allows researchers to quantify the impact of their contributions, tracking the number of views, stars, thumbs up and viewing time. We have optimized the existing website to make it more user-friendly and made a short video advertising the website. In addition, by making the website a convenient place in which to collaborate and discuss a variety of outreach efforts, it serves as a resource for NSF PIs to develop best practices for outreach activities to K-12 students and the general public. We invite contributions from students, post-docs and faculty-share your beautiful, ground breaking science with a wider audience, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of your outreach activities-make it yours! |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11:51AM - 12:03PM |
G06.00004: Physics outreach as teaching and service-learning experience for students Tatiana Erukhimova We will present the results of an innovative program at Texas A&M University that aims to add hands-on, teamwork, and outreach components to the learning and research experiences of undergraduate and graduate students. In this program, undergraduates taking introductory physics classes work throughout the school year in small teams led by physics graduate students on design and fabrication of exciting physics demonstration experiments: from a giant Galilean cannon to liquid sand pool, Texas-sized Tesla coil, superconducting train, and supersonic gun. Student teams demonstrate their experiments at high-profile outreach events such as the Texas A&M Physics & Engineering Festival, Physics Shows, Just Add Science, and Game Day Physics. They film their experiments in 2-3 min video clips posted at realphysicslive.com. The demonstrations are also used in regular physics classes at Texas A&M. |
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