Monday - Friday, October 7-11, 2024 (in-person)
We will come to you in Atlanta (and surrounding areas), Georgia!
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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.
Contributing laboratories, industries, academic institutions, and government agencies include: APS Physics, Auburn University, General Atomics; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Wittenberg University, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Science, U.S. Department of Energy Defense programs, and many more.