Monday - Friday, November 17-21, 2025 (in-person)
We will come to you in Long Beach, California! (and surrounding areas)
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The Plasma Science Student Events: Our team of scientists are eager to visit schools, student organizations, or clubs to demonstrate how plasma plays a vital role in our daily lives, offering hands-on plasma and physics demonstrations for students. Students, parents, teachers, and STEM educators are welcome to participate. Examples of activities are:
- Make lightning with a Van de Graaff generator.
- Observe your fluctuating body temperature on a special monitor.
- Participate in a "flow bubble" demonstration.
- Manipulate plasma with magnets.
- Watch an electromagnetic wave demonstration.
- Play with plasma “toys.”
- Learn how to confine plasmas magnetically in a fusion device by participating in a computer simulation.
- Meet and talk with professional scientists and engineers in the field of plasma physics and learn about cutting-edge research.
Acknowledgements:
The DPP acknowledges the support of federal funding agencies that support our members participating in education, outreach, and community engagement activities. Among these organizations are: the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation EPSCoR program, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Energy Defense programs.
We are grateful for the many organizations that have participated in these activities including: APS Physics, Auburn University, General Atomics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, The Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, University of Rochester – Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Wittenberg University, and many more.”