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My love for the beauty and elegance of physics drew me into science writing. I wasn’t a very good scientist, so I decided to write about them instead. It is not a bad trade off, and I never have to scramble for grant money.
So please excuse my shameless promotion of the Johns Hopkins Department of Physics Fair at the Homewood campus, Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. This free event advertises as being fun for “K through gray.” I don’t know about that, but I can’t resist a physics fair.
Please be advised that the JHU Spring Fair will also be under way. Come early and stay late.
The physics fair will be held at the Bloomberg Building on the JHU Homewood campus and will include the following activities:
Professor Extraordinaire Shows (2), 12:15 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. JHU Professor Peter Armitage and his assistants will give a demonstration that will include fantastic displays, explosions, loud noises and bright lights. Prof. Armitage's demonstrations promise to be spectacular.
Elementary-Middle School Science Bowl Competitions, 1:30 p.m. Teams of up to four elementary school-age students (grades 1 through 8) will compete to answer a variety of general science-related questions in a quiz show format. This activity will be held in Bloomberg's Schafler Auditorium, which is equipped with a system allowing contestants to press buttons to select their answers, with the results being displayed in real time. Winning teams receive trophies for their schools.
Science Bowl and Physics Bowl Competitions, 2:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. (respectively). Teams of up to four high school students will compete in answering physics and science-related questions in a quiz show format. Winning teams will receive prizes, such as trophies and books. The Bowls are limited to 30 teams.
Hopkins Construction Contest, 3:45 p.m.: Participants of all ages will have 30 minutes to construct a boat that can hold as much cargo (sand) as possible with bonuses given for groups that are ready to test their boat early. All materials will be provided.
No physics fair would be complete without a space science component, so the Hubble Space Telescope and the soon-to-be-deployed James Webb Space Telescope will be represented at the JHU Physics Fair.
Besides the Space Telescope Science Institute is right across the street from the Bloomberg building.
Models of both telescopes will be on hand. Hubble will also have a table devoted to spectroscopy and how HST uses different types of cameras on board the telescope to capture different light waves to give us more information about the far objects that it looks at. There will also be a video showing how the upcoming Servicing Mission to the Telescope will enable it to continue far into the next decade. The Web Telescope area will feature demonstrations of using an infrared color camera show how Webb will look for heat signatures of galaxies that formed in the early universe. We'll have fun playing with disappearing hands and painting faces with ice.
Finally, don’t miss the Nano Express from Howard University - an amazing scientific theme park on wheels.
For more info: JHU Physics Fair.
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