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SPS Chapters on Outreach and Service

FEB 01, 2024
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An SPS volunteer from Florida A&M University performs science demonstrations for a high school science class during STEM Day, with the assistance of a visiting volunteer from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.


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University of North Carolina Asheville SPS volunteers show off demos as they cohost a branch of the North Carolina Science Festival.


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An SPS member from Las Positas College demonstrates spectroscopy during the Tri-Valley Innovation Fair.


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Emory University SPS members blow smoke rings with a vortex cannon during Outreach Day, an event they hosted at Spread the Word Church in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Brigham Young University’s SPS chapter shares their passion for science with local elementary school students.


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A University of Vermont SPS member talks magnetism with a visitor at the Echo Center, a science and nature museum, during a daylong SPS outreach event there.


All photos courtesy of the SPS chapter’s 2022–23 annual report.


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