Students recreate the walking rainbow experiment in the class
In the absence of in-house lab tours to introduce school students to working labs and researchers, in 2020 FLEET developed and distributed a series of ‘virtual lab tours’, of varying levels of interactivity:
- Show-and-tell lab tour via webcam for John Monash Science School (JMSS) students at Clayton of FLEET laboratories at
- UNSW in Sydney (materials science), and
- Swinburne University in Melbourne (cold-atom optics)
- UNSW experimental lab introductions for Open Day:
- Introduction to the undergrad physics labs (Krittika Kumar, Matt Rendell, Yoni Ashlea-Alava and Karina Hudson)
- Measuring superconducting quantum interference: a third-year experiment
- Studying thermodynamics with a fully-enclosed ‘Stirling engine’
- Tracking the paths of exotic and (occasionally) interstellar particles with a cloud chamber
- Demonstrating quantum superposition on a desktop optical apparatus
- Monash University lab videos for Open Day:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- School of Physics and Astronomy
- Levitating superconductor video at Monash New Horizons
- Three-dimensional ‘walk through’ of the New Horizons lab, Monash
- Virtual in-school outreach featuring FLEET members in the lab dialling in to guide hands-on experiments in class:
- Elsternwick Primary School in Victoria
- Emanuel Primary School in Sydney
—an extract from the 2020 FLEET annual report