To welcome in this year’s incoming students, SPS hosted a levitating superconductors event, showing off the Meissner effect in a sensational demonstration. Event tickets overfilled, and around 75 students came to witness a gravity-defying demo and learn about quantum mechanics!
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, SPS organized its Physics Field Day event, hosting over 75 high school students from across Georgia! Participants toured various physics labs in Howey, including groups researching graphene and cardiac dynamics, and were challenged by a series of physics activities, from Fermi questions …
This year’s Pi Day may have only been 50% of tau but it was 100% delicious (speaking as someone who had 15 plates of whipped cream smashed in their face) and 300% profitable compared to last year! Never before has SPS put out a more organized effort to smother the …
So many people got pied in the face. So many. Dripping dairy cream lives in perpetuity among the annals of their soiled shirts and hoodies, or at least it did until they did laundry. The primary volunteers for getting pied in the face were SPS officers, who were obligated to …
We had SO MANY people come out to help with the explore event. This activity is an opportunity for current members to tell prospective students about Georgia Tech and promote SPS. We bring out cool demos and call on students to interact with them. We even had people from SWIP come with us to represent themselves!
Michael, Matthew, Abel, Somil, and Andrew went to Morningside Elementary School to do some experiments and freeze cookies with the kids to get them excited about STEM!
Matthew Barroso, Somil Joshi, and Michael Pacocha went to the Starling school to share our love of physics! They had fun demonstrating superconductivity and conservation of momentum. Then to be silly they tried pouring liquid nitrogen down stairs!
During EXPLORE, SPS students show off our cool toys and trips to prospective Georgia Tech students. Many current members were originally introduced to the club through this very event! Three of the newly elected officers for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year, Charles Cardot, Martino Stino, and Robin Glefke, were present with a guest appearance by senior SPS outreach participant, Sam Wiley. Two other members, Vivian Romero and Stacy Wood were at the event presenting their research posters. We were able to even recruit a few students to participate in Physics Field Day next weekend!
The SPS has been giving demonstrations to Morningside Elementary’s science night for many years now! Previous president, Vivian Romero, and Outreach Committee Chair, Charles Cardot, lead the new wave of SPS outreach members, Lauren Prinn, Martino Stino, John Lewis, Chesson Sipling, and Somil Joshi. The kinds of demonstrations we bring have changed only slightly; we now have more because the demo room has been better organized by the kindness of Andrea Welsh, a Physics Grad Student.
