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27 September 2016 Continuous outreach activities performed by a student project team of undergraduates and their program topics in optics and photonics
Makoto Hasegawa, Seika Tokumitsu
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Proceedings Volume 9946, Optics Education and Outreach IV; 99460D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235311
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States
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The out-of-curriculum project team “Rika-Kobo”, organized by undergraduate students, has been actively engaged in a variety of continuous outreach activities in the fields of science and technology including optics and photonics. The targets of their activities cover wide ranges of generations from kids to parents and elderly people, with aiming to promote their interests in various fields of science and technologies. This is an out-of-curriculum project team with about 30 to 40 undergraduate students in several grades and majors. The total number of their activities per year tends to reach 80 to 90 in recent years. Typical activities to be performed by the project team include science classes in elementary and/or secondary schools, science classes at other educational facilities such as science museums, and experiment demonstrations at science events. Popular topics cover wide ranges from explanations and demonstrations of nature phenomena, such as rainbow colors, blue sky, sunset color, to demonstration experiments related to engineering applications, such as polarization of light, LEDs, and optical communications. Experimental topics in optics and photonics are especially popular to the audiences. Those activities are very effective to enhance interests of the audiences in learning related knowledges, irrespective of their generations. Those activities are also helpful for the student members to achieve and/or renew scientific knowledges. In addition, each of the activities provides the student members with effective and advantageous Project-Based-Learning (PBL) style experiences including manufacturing experiences, which are advantageous to cultivate their engineering skills.
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Makoto Hasegawa and Seika Tokumitsu "Continuous outreach activities performed by a student project team of undergraduates and their program topics in optics and photonics", Proc. SPIE 9946, Optics Education and Outreach IV, 99460D (27 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235311
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KEYWORDS
Light emitting diodes
Photonics
Optical communications
Prisms
Light sources
Polarization
Light
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