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SPS Chapters on Hands-on Projects

FEB 01, 2023
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Northern Virginia Community College’s SPS chapter tests a design for a hydroponic greenhouse.


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Pumpkin carving is an annual tradition that students in Bethel University’s SPS chapter embrace each October—how many ways can you write Newton’s second law?


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As part of an ongoing effort to engage the University of Illinois at Chicago community, the Astronomy Club set up telescopes in the middle of the quad and invited passersby to view Jupiter and Saturn.


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During Open Lab Day, SPS students and physics faculty at the University of Kentucky showed off their labs to new students.


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Seton Hall University SPS members during a marble roller coaster build challenge.


Photos courtesy of the corresponding chapter’s 2021–22 chapter report unless otherwise noted.


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