Last year, the Education Subcommittee led by Michael Boehm organized and ran
an extremely successful outreach event. Build off the experience and success
of the 2014 outreach event at the Franklin Institute, a second outreach
event is being planned for the 2015 meeting in Baltimore. This year's
outreach event will be held at the Maryland Science Center on Sunday October
11, 2015 from 1 - 4 pm. As before the SoR will will provide hands-on
demonstrations aimed at children and adults with the goal of teaching them
about rheology and letting them play with some interesting materials so they
can discover that Science really is cool.
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What Can You Do:
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If you would like to participate, email
Michael Boehm,
michael.william.boehm@gmail.com, with your statement of interest and
your rheology background, e.g., solid suspensions, gels as cell scaffolds,
polymer melts. Also include your preferred time block: 1- 2 pm, 2 - 3 pm or
3 - 4 pm. We hope to have at least 2 or 3 activities running concurrently.
The demonstrations/activities should last 10 - 15 minutes and repeat several
times during your hour block.
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If you are local to Baltimore, we would
appreciate graduate student volunteers to help prepare the facilities, run
the demonstrations and clean up afterwards. |
