The Adelphi Physics Wins a Marsh White grant this week. This is a small $200 grant that funds the following project:

Project overview from grant proposal: “Lab for Kids is an outreach program that will take place in the Adelphi University physics department. We invite local high school (Westbury HS) students to participate. We will set up several stations for small groups of students to rotate through. The first station will demonstrate principles of optics. The second station will demonstrate the effects of gravity, as well as angular momentum. The third station will focus on sound and electrostatics. The fourth station will focus on electronics, where students will get to make their own circuits and motors using LED lights and DC motors to take home. The last station will be lab tours, where we will give students a tour around the department and our labs.”

People often congratulate me for winning this award. But Professor Sean Bentley and I had very little to do with it. The students do such a good job putting the event on and writing the grant proposal. I want to highlight the officers on this team: Carissa Giuliano (president), Thomas Danza (VP), Olivia Chierchio, Katie Gifford, and Sally Lau. They are the heros here.