[Grad-postdoc-assn] [Fwd: FW: Outreach opportunity]

[Paula Fisher]

Below is a message geared aimed toward CU graduate students.  I asked if 
graduate students from other institutions could participate, and they 
indicated that they are going to try to fill the slots with CU students, 
but if they cannot, they would welcome participation from non-CU grads.  
I think if this interests you and you are not a CU student, send an 
email to see what kind of response they have had.

Paula


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> ------ Forwarded Message
> *From: *Jeffrey D Kidder <Jeffrey.Kidder at Colorado.EDU>
> *Date: *Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:05:27 -0600
> *To: *Ellen Brock <ellen.brock at Colorado.EDU>, Barbara Monday 
> <barbara.monday at Colorado.EDU>, Hester Nadel 
> <hester.nadel at Colorado.EDU>, Maureen Murphy 
> <maureen.murphy at Colorado.EDU>, Debra Kulcsar 
> <debra.kulcsar at Colorado.EDU>, Kristi Dahl <kristi.dahl at Colorado.EDU>
> *Subject: *Outreach opportunity
>
> Dear Graduate Student,
>
> I am writing to invite you to participate in a physical sciences 
> education project in three local middle schools.  Last year, Science 
> Discovery piloted a project at Manhattan Middle School to build a 
> "Rube Goldberg" type device demonstrating principles of engineering, 
> physics, and chemistry.  Graduate students worked with teams of middle 
> school students to build segments of the device.  The segments were 
> then linked in a linear fashion, and initiation of the device resulted 
> in a kinetic "domino effect," demonstrating chemical and physical 
> principals in an interesting and entertaining way.  The device that 
> the teams built was featured at the opening ceremonies of the 29th 
> Street Mall last October, and the cascade of kinetics terminated with 
> the cutting (burning) of the ceremonial ribbon.
>
> We plan to do a larger scale version of the project this academic year 
> (October through May), and I'm looking for graduate students to 
> participate in the project.  The time commitment would be three hours 
> per week and you would be paid $20/hour.  You would work 
> collaboratively with a classroom teacher to enrich the teaching of 
> 6th-grade physical science and also work with students after school on 
> a kinetics project similar to the one described above.  The completed 
> project would be featured at several public venues in May.
>
> I am holding an informational meeting on the project this Friday, 
> October 5 at 4:30 p.m.  The meeting will take place at Science 
> Discovery at 3400 Marine Street on East Campus.  Please contact me if 
> you are interested in attending this meeting.  Also, please pass this 
> message on to any of your colleagues who might be interested.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jeffrey Kidder
>
>
>
> Jeffrey D. Kidder, Ph.D.
> Director, Science Discovery
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> Telephone: (303) 492-4839
> Fax: (303) 735-6443
> www.colorado.edu/sciencediscovery
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