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Science Educators' Day

Science Educators' Day 2009

EDAY 2009

SCIENCE EDUCATORS' DAY

Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:00-8:00  pm 
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Stanford University

  • Attend this FREE event for middle and high school science teachers sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Stanford OSA Student Chapter, and the Department of Electrical Engineering

  • The program will focus on effective and innovative approaches to science education, with an emphasis on hands-on, interactive classroom lessons

  • Come see low-cost experiments and demonstrations on optical phenomena (that you can use in your classroom!):

    • Fluorescence: Viewing Glowing Colors and Invisible Ink

    • Splitting White Light: Prisms, Soap bubbles, and Rainbows

    • Creating Colors from Polarization

    • Waveguides: Water and Jell-O Light Pipes, Fiber Optics

    • And Much More!

  • Gift bags containing demonstration aids and lesson plans for the first 100 registrants; additional optics materials available as door prizes

  • Enjoy a complimentary dinner with other local science educators

  • Meet Stanford and Berkeley graduate students, staff, and local educators interested in science outreach

Space will be limited, register today!  Deadline: Friday, October 2nd, 2009.

The registration process is simple; teachers can register one of three ways:

  1. Fill out the quick, easy online form at http://www.frontiersinoptics.org/Forms/EdayOnlineForm.aspx
  2. Email their contact information to kcoffm@osa.org to let us know they plan to attend, or
  3. Fax the completed registration form (download the PDF version) to 202-416-6134.

Please feel free to distribute registration information to your fellow teachers and make additional copies of the registration form if needed!

To learn more about OSA and EDAY, visit:

http://www.osa.org/educationresources/youtheducation/educatorsevents/default.aspx

Please contact us if you have any questions about the program!

Science Educators' Day 2008

EDAY 2009 was held in Rochester, NY.  Stanford OSA/SPIE had our popular Polarization demonstration on hand:

 

 

 

See a whole collection of videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/OSAEDay2008!

 

Science Educators' Day 2007

 

 

 

Summary: Science Educators' Day (EDAY) 2007 is a annual event held in conjunction with the Frontiers in Optics Conference/ Annual OSA Meeting. This year, Stanford Student OSA/SPIE, Berkeley Student OSA/SPIE, OSA and the OSA Foundation coordinated the event for local pre-college (middle and high school) teachers. For the first time, 8 universities (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Caltech, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State, and University of Rochester) had hands-on optics demonstrations as part of EDAY!

Attendees of EDAY were given teacher handbooks filled with lesson plans, instructions for how to recreate many of the demonstrations on a budget, and more.

 


Photos: Click here to see photos of EDAY 2007
Feedback: Did you attend the event?Email us your suggestions and feedback!
Additional resources:

EDAY 2007 was recently featured in Optics and Photonics News: Download it here!

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