Bridging the Gap

Amrita Prasad, Khu Tri Vu, Ting Han, Alex Minovich and Sarah Beavan

The Australian National University’s Student Chapter recently conducted an optics outreach program targeting teens in a remote part of Australia.

imageStudents alongside the Guide Star experiment.

In a remote and sparsely populated region of Australia, the recent two-day outreach project “Bridging the Gap” lived up to its name in a number of ways. It gave science resources and experiments to families from an underserved area; shared the wonder of optics with high-school students; and even bridged the gap between generations by incorporating parents into scientific activities.

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