{"id":67,"date":"2013-08-01T00:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2020-02-17T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T19:15:07","slug":"outreach-activites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/outreach-activites\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach Activites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McMorran Lab is interested in partnering with students, teachers, parents, companies, and the press to share our research and learn how it can best benefit the community. While sharing our interests and discoveries in science and technology is enjoyable at a fundamental level, we scientists benefit from it in another way as well: discussing our research with people outside of our field, with backgrounds quite different from our own, provides us with opportunities to see our own work in a new light. Here is a list of our recent efforts to take advantage of these valuable opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the week of June 25-29 members of the McMorran Lab contributed to the\u00a0SPICE camp.\u00a0The mission of SPICE is to create a learning environment where girls can thrive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It is an excellent opportunity for students in Oregon entering the 6th through 8th grades. More information can be found at\u00a0<a title=\"SPICE\" href=\"http:\/\/oco.uoregon.edu\/spice\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/oco.uoregon.edu\/spice\/<\/a>\u00a0or by contacting\u00a0<a title=\"Brandy Todd\" href=\"mailto:btodd@uoregon.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Brandy Todd<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a title=\"Oregon Center for Optics website\" href=\"http:\/\/oco.uoregon.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Center for Optics<\/a>\u00a0btodd@uoregon.edu or (541) 346-4313.<\/li>\n<li>On May 25, 2012\u00a0members of the McMorran Lab contributed to\u00a0Mad Duck Family Science Night. This was an end-of-year event in which students participating in Mad Duck Science Days brought their families to Willamette Atrium to demonstrate some of the concepts they had learned and to explore new ones. The McMorran Lab operated a booth in which students and families interacted with hands on demos of electromagnetism, cathode ray tubes, and a tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM). These demos were used to explore the concept of an electron, and how it can be manipulated to both record and recreate images.<\/li>\n<li>On March 16, 2012 the Corwin Lab and McMorran Lab both hosted a\u00a0Mad Duck Science Friday for a group of 20 students from Hamlin Middle School. With the help of graduate and undergraduate students, and five Science Partners recruited from South Eugene High School, we explored concepts of force, gravity, acceleration, and impact. We used these concepts to understand what happens to\u00a0materials under the applied stresses of falling to the ground. With this knowledge, the students were\u00a0then challenged with dropping an egg from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floor\u00a0balconies of Willamette Atrium without breaking it. We divided the\u00a0students into groups of 4-6, with a Mad Duck Science Partner from South Eugene High School acting as a consultant for each group, and provided them with various materials\u00a0such as styrofoam cups, plastic bags, twigs, straws, toilet paper. In\u00a0the end, we discussed how all groups converged on a successful dual\u00a0strategy of minimizing the velocity of the egg before it hits the\u00a0ground (e.g., using a parachute) and maximizing the time over which it\u00a0decelerates (e.g., using a crumple cage). After lunch, Ben Wright from the physics demo\u00a0room performed an exciting 45-minute demonstration of\u00a0waves, optics, and acoustics (shattering wine glasses with sounds,\u00a0using a flame tube, showing interference of sound waves).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McMorran Lab is interested in partnering with students, teachers, parents, companies, and the press to share our research and learn how it can best benefit the community. While sharing our interests and discoveries in science and technology is enjoyable at a fundamental level, we scientists benefit from it in another way as well: discussing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/outreach-activites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outreach Activites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/mcmorran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}