December
13, 2002
MHC Physics Students
Help Middle Schoolers See the Light
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Photo: Fred LeBlanc
Elizabeth Fenstermacher '04 (center)
shares her excitement about physics with South Hadley sixth-graders.
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When
Suchi Saria '04 was a sixth-grader in her native India, she
began doing hands-on projects in school that sparked her interest
in science. The lightbulb literally went off one day for Saria
when a strong electrical current was used to shatter a bulb during
a class demonstration. Fascinated, she tried to tape the filament
back together and to figure out how to build an unbreakable bulb.
Though she was unsuccessful in that particular pursuit, little
else has stood in her way as she pursues her goal of a doctorate
in robotics. Thanks in part to the "strong base" she
received and the applied curriculum of her early years of schooling,
Saria has become a double major in physics and computer science
at MHC who conducts cocurricular robotics research with computer
science faculty members. Now Saria and fellow members of the College's
chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS), with the help
of MHC physics lab director Orin Hoffman, are helping to generate
interest in physics among sixth-graders at South Hadley's
Michael E. Smith Middle School through the same kind of hands-on
science that so inspired Saria when she was their age. more>
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