Projects from the DeArmond Makerspace, Price Science Commons, and Dean Walton
Helium Filling Team We are always trying to improve the skills of our university community members. This week under the inspiration of Mark Fonstad from the Geography Department we trained a few colleagues on...
The National Association of Rocketry annual meeting was at the Kennedy Space Center this year. It’s a chance to meet up with educators and hobbyist involved with space related projects. This year was extra...
One recent partnership that has really taken off recently is our new engineering club at Sheldon High School here in Lane County, Oregon. In existence since October of 2018, we believe it is the...
I was excited to see the news yesterday about my fellow science education outreach associate, Stan Micklavzina, getting an award from the Lund University in Sweden. I try to see Stan perform whenever...
We were happy to install a simple exhibit on Marie Curie in the Price Science Commons for her 200th Birthday last year. We covered a bit about her life, and the work of her...
The recent polar vortex that froze a good part of North America over the last few days reminded me of this demonstration that Randy Sullivan from the Chemistry Department puts on every year. ...
The University of Oregon’s Physics Department holds an annual Physics Slam where faculty compete try to convey complex issues to the general public and university community. In the most recent event, Dr Aleman’s group...
As educators interested in outreach, we do outreach where we can. For the last four years we have helped host an educational outreach booth at the Oregon Country Fair where we show off maps...
Through the Oregon Space Grant Consortium, Price Science Commons staff have worked with Portland State University’s Aerospace program on the plans to build and launch a cubesat micro-satellite in coming year (2019-2020). Students at...
We work closely with the University of Oregon’s STEM CORE Program and here we have partnered with them (under the direction of Bryan Rebar and Dean Livelybrooks) to host a workshop on building Slinky...