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Bryan Stanley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Physicists, physics students, and community members engage with each other through a variety of informal physics programs. These programs differ in format, such as after school programs, public lectures, planetariums, summer camps, and other non-formal classroom environments. These programs also differ in the physics topics they cover, activities,…
Descriptors: Physics, Informal Education, Volunteers, Leaders
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Anna Koumara; Michael Bakaloglou; Hariton M. Polatoglou – World Journal of Education, 2024
Eleven high school students participated in a one-week STEM summer camp focused on designing and building parachutes to deliver fragile objects safely. Using the Engineering Design Process (EDP) as a framework, students explored how canopy size affects performance. They applied physics concepts such as terminal velocity, forces, and acceleration,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Summer Science Programs, Physics