What is the Physics Outreach Project...

Physics Outreach Project is a student led volunteer project run by physics students from University College London (UCL).  The project is supervised by the University College London Union (UCLU).  This academic year 2009/10, we will start visiting schools from November 2009 until April 2010.  

The aim of the project is to increase school pupils' interest in physics while they are still making important choices in life.  We hope that our presentations will fascinate them and inspire them to study physics at a higher academic level.   

We are always looking for schools to visit so that we can give presentations on intriguing topics such as:

      - The Large Hadron Collider, LHC

      - Medical Imaging

      - Metamaterials

      - Music in physics

      - Rainbows

      - The Life of a Star

      - Superconductors and the Meissner effect

      - Applications of physics in other areas of science

Some presentations will also involve interactive demonstrations.  

We would love to come and give presentations to a science class in your secondary school or college, to children aged 12 - 18.  Each presentation normally lasts 15 to 20 minutes, so we generally give 3 to 4 presentations overall per school visit.  Just contact us on our contact page leaving your school details, as well as the year group and academic ability of the school pupils we will be presenting to.  This is so that we can tailor our presentations to suit our audience.  

All the presentations are carried out by current undergraduate or postgraduate student volunteers from University College London.  

Through these presentations, we hope to encourage more students to study physics at university.  We would also like to make students more aware about the wide variety of career options available to those who have a physics degree.  

At the request of the classroom teacher, we are also able to hold a Q & A session at the end of the presentations.  This will give students the opportunity to find out more about the presentation topics and about the presenters' experiences at university.