Angelo State Physics Peer Pressure Team: Road Tour 2009

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Abstract

The Angelo State University Society of Physics Students chapter has a strong history of science outreach to the local community. For the fourth year, the outreach team has undertaken a week-long trip visiting middle school teachers and children and presenting physics demonstrations on a round trip of over 900 miles. The goal of the outreach program is to informally educate and excite students about physics and science in general. The demonstrations vary from simple hands on activities to more complicated experiments that most public school science teachers do not have resources to present. Each presentation engages undergraduate student volunteers in explaining underlying physical principles. A new assessment feature was added to the demonstration program to gauge the effectiveness of the program in changing attitudes about science. The results have been overwhelming as the subsequent requests for further visits are too numerous for us to accommodate.

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Authors

  • Mikhail Zhernenkov

    Angelo State University Department of Physics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Univeristy of Central Florida-College of Optics and Photonics, BAE Systems, University of Alberta Department of Physics, Istanbul University Department of Physics, Texas Tech University Department of Physics, Istanbul University, Beyazit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, UTD, TAMS at UNT, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany, Dept. of Physics, University of New Orleans, University of Texas at Arlington, Prairie View A\&M University, Chemistry, UTSA, Sciprint.org, Texas Tech University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas State University, Punjab U, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Dept. of Physics, Texas State University, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson TX 75080, Department of Physics, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, Department of Physics, Texas A\&M University, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, University of Texas Arlington, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Max Plank Institute, Dresden, Germany, Education Consultant, APS, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Physics, Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77843, LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Toni Sauncy

    Angelo State University Department of Physics, Angelo State University - Department of Physics