Broaden your education...apply for an SPS Internship! SPS Internships are broad-based learning opportunities for undergraduate physics majors, both in science research endeavors and in educational and science policy endeavors. Students are placed in organizations and agencies that utilize the energy and diversity of aspiring students and contribute to their professional development through meaningful assignments.
Makin' Waves with the 2008 SOCK!
Get ready to make some waves! The 2008 SPS SOCK provides three different lessons designed to engage college students and school children alike. Lessons include polarization, sound, reflection, and refraction. By using a long spring, Boomwhackers®, polarized sunglasses, and Jell-O®, SPS members can make waves in the community as well as in their own chapter. Each User’s Manual includes two lessons per topic, demos, worksheets, and a resource CD with instructional videos for parts of each lesson. Didn’t receive a 2008 SOCK? Compile your own by downloading it - instructions are included in the User’s Manual.
Future Faces of Physics Jeopardy With the theme Future Faces of Physics, (FFP) SPS is raising visibility and focus on issues of student diversity in physics. Future Faces of Physics Jeopardy is centered on this theme...try it out with friends or at your next SPS meeting!
All chapters hosting zone meetings in fall 2008 will received a free FFP kit that includes the Jeopardy game. If you would like to request a kit for another meeting you are hosting, please contact SPS. You can also compile your own kit.
1st man-made nuclear explosion By L. Worth Seagondollar, Co-Founder of SPS
This talk describes one of the greatest war-time experiences possible for a young graduate student in the 1940's, including an eye-witness account of the Trinity Test in the New Mexico desert. Near-catastrophic accidents, working with armed guards watching, Enrico Fermi asking you to come to his office—these are unforgettable adventures.
Putting a New Face on Physics By Krystle Williams, Former SPS Associate Councilor
SPS Council member Krystle Williams brings SPS's 2008 theme Future Faces of Physics to Symmetry readers. Symmetry is a magazine about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science, from interdisciplinary collaborations to policy to culture. It is published by Fermilab and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
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SPS Internships are broad-based learning opportunities for undergraduate physics majors, both in science research endeavors and in educational and science policy endeavors. Students are placed in organizations and agencies that utilize the energy and diversity of aspiring students and contribute to their professional development through meaningful assignments.
With the theme 
By L. Worth Seagondollar, Co-Founder of SPS
By Krystle Williams, Former SPS Associate Councilor
