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April Whirlwind – Part 1!
Whew! So much happened here in April, I’m just barely catching my breath now! Prepping an egg for its trip to the ground. We had two great outreach events early in April. The second weekend of April was the Expanding Your Horizons event, with a variety of science workshops for 5th & 6th grade girls. This is a massive…
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March Meeting — guest blog from Avi Vajpeyi
I was honoured to attend the APS meeting in Baltimore between 14-19 March. The meeting was amazing—though I found myself oscillating between: “I get this” to “Umm… I think I understand some of what they are talking about” to “Really? What are they talking about?”. Overall, a five star rating, if you ask me! A…
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Dream a Little Dream of Physics — guest blog by Justine Walker
Dream a Little Dream of Physics – Fulfilling a Dream at the World’s Largest Meeting of Physicists I don’t dream small. Ever since I was a young girl, I dreamed of a bright, big future for myself. Framed on my desk at school is a picture I drew from the prompt “A scientist is…” in…
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March Meeting Day 5
Whew! It’s been a while since I have been at the March Meeting for the full week, and I definitely reached information overload. But before signing off, I wanted to summarize Day 5, Friday! There were a number of interesting choices in the morning, but I chose to go hear Miles Padgett of the University…
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March Meeting Update – Days 2 & 3
I knew when I posted the Day 1 update from the March Meeting that it would be pretty hard to keep up daily updates, and I was right!The students arrived on Tuesday morning, and Drew did a great job with his poster at the Tuesday afternoon poster session Drew ready for visitors to his poster…
