Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 2–6, 2020; Denver, Colorado
Session M70: Physics Outreach, Education and SocietyEducation Outreach Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: DCMP FED DCOMP Chair: Jessica Thomas, American Physical Society Room: 208 |
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:15AM - 11:27AM |
M70.00001: Design and implementation of professional development workshops that support women in STEM in Tanzania Jill Wenderott, Joyce Elisadiki Women, particularly at the graduate and professional levels, are underrepresented worldwide in STEM fields. Empowering younger women at the secondary- and undergraduate-level to pursue STEM as a career path, as well as providing organizational tools for women in STEM once at the university level, can help to improve their retention and long-term representation in STEM fields. To meet the aim of encouraging women in STEM globally, the women supporting women in the sciences (WS2) program was developed as between Northwestern University graduate Society of Women Engineers (NU GradSWE) and graduate women in STEM from several Tanzanian universities. The first objective of the WS2 program was to build professional development workshops for women in STEM in Tanzania focused on (1) career development and (2) organizing as women in STEM. To this end, two workshops were created collaboratively via virtual meetings between NU GradSWE and Tanzanian volunteers. The workshop content was then taught online to prospective facilitators from Tanzania, with the hope to pilot the workshops in Tanzania in early 2020. This talk will discuss the stages of professional development workshop creation, as well as anticipated outcomes and long-term goals of the program. |
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:27AM - 11:39AM |
M70.00002: A Free Renewable Energy-based Physics Day Camp for Middle School Girls Roberto Ramos On its seventh year, the Physics Wonder Girls Program1 provided a free, novel renewable energy physics-based immersion experience to two cohorts of middle school girls selected from a pool of high-performing students in the Philadelphia-New Jersey area. The girls came from diverse communities, including underserved school districts. Girls were introduced to the theme of renewable energy, took a crash course on circuits using solar cell kits, and then built and raced solar cars, and solar boats on a portable pool. They compared the efficiencies of silicon cells versus organic solar cells, built solar cells based on dyes from raspberry and blackberry fruit, and used a thermal imager to audit heat leaks. They explored wind power using model turbines, digital anemometers, and a commercial turbine. They met women physicists engineers from the local food industry, toured a local food company and presented demonstrations to a community of friends and teachers. |
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:39AM - 11:51AM |
M70.00003: Scientists in Public Service: Running for office as a STEM candidate Shaughnessy Naughton The Washington Post declared 2018 the “Year of the Scientist Running for Office.” But despite scientifically and technologically complex challenges facing elected officials, public service is still a rare path for scientists. This session seeks to demystify the ways that scientists at all levels can engage in the democratic process, from casting a ballot to being on the ballot themselves. Participants will learn what it is like to run for office and to better understand the unique barriers to entering into politics as scientists. They will engage with scientists who have first-hand experience running for office, and leave with concrete ideas about getting involved in the 2020 elections. |
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:51AM - 12:03PM |
M70.00004: Making a basic mathematics course compulsory for everyone studying science at pre-college and college level Pritam Mandal From a study based on personal teaching experiences and one-to-one and in-group interaction with a large number of students (9th to 12th Grade and UG levels) and teachers across India, we found that science students not having mathematics in their subject combination, suffer from physics-phobia. |
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