Cleveland State University

The CSU’s SPS Physics Fridays outreach program would like to expand its outreach from middle school kids to high school. We will work with CSU alumna and former Physics Fridays coordinator who is currently a high school science teacher. This school is a public, choice STEM-designated K-12 school that serves over 1000 students from over 45 school districts in eight Ohio counties. The school maintains grades 7-12 on the Northeast Ohio Medical University’s campus and has a strong biology, health, and medicine focus. Our outreach program will provide important physics fundamentals and advance basic understanding of physics behind common optical tools used in biology and medicine. “Fabulous Light Waves and their Applications” proposes a half day trip of the CSU SPS outreach team to the school in early spring to engage the students in interactive lesson with optical demonstrations. The high school students will then come to CSU to visit its Advanced Optics and Modern Physics teaching labs, and optics and biophysics research labs.

Andrew Scherer

Kiril A Streletzky