Outreach

Outreach Activities



The team's first presentation!



January 29, 2011-

Citrus GraviTeam presentation for a group of students from Monrovia High School. These students came to Citrus College on January 29, 2011, for STEM Physics activities conducted by professor Lucia Riderer and her Focus on Calculus students together with Thomas Dobson, Physics High School teacher. The high school students and their teacher asked a lot of questions about NASA, the Reduced Gravity Flight Program and the project that Citrus GraviTeam is working on. It was fun and instructive!




March 4, 2011-
Nineteen middle school girls came to Citrus College

Jackie explaining capillary action

for an event hosted by the Women in Mathematics program. Between participating in an activity discovering the Fibonacci sequence and a competition to win graphing calculators, Jacqueline Deeb, a member of Women in Mathematics as well as the Citrus GraviTeam, gave a presentation to the girls about NASA, the Reduced Gravity Flight Program, and our team’s experiment. The girls loved the presentation and actively participated asking and answering questions posed to them. In a thank you email to Lucia Riderer, who is the coordinator of the Women in Mathematics program as well as the team faculty adviser, it was stated that the girls had an awesome time and especially enjoyed the NASA presentation.



March 21, 2011-
Jackie Deeb presented to the Civil Air Patrol Squadron 64 cadets. Since the Civil Air Patrol has a large emphasis on Aerospace Education, the cadets were interested in our experiment and what we were doing with NASA.

 

April 14, 2011-

On Thursday, Wesley Gunter, Josh Huffaker, and Phoebe Sulzen gave two presentations at Foothill Christian Middle School in Glendora. The audience for each presentation consisted of thirty 8th grade students and one teacher. Being able to experiment with capillary action increased the students' interest in our experiment, and they actively participated in the 45 minute presentations, asking great questions. They seemed to be particularly interested in the microgravity aspect of the team's experiment.