Events for Educators

SCIENCE EDUCATORS' DAY (EDAY)

Special FREE event for Middle and High School Educators

Featuring the theme:
OPTICS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Time: 4:30-8:00 PM (dinner provided)
Where: Rochester Riverside Convention Center –Lilac Room, Rochester, NY
Cost: FREE (includes dinner and parking)

The event includes:

Approximately 20 stations with educators demonstrating and discussing hands-on
materials for teaching optics to secondary school students
Gift bags containing demonstration aids and lesson plans for the first 100 registrants
Additional optics materials available as door prizes
A buffet dinner allowing you to mingle with fellow teachers and conference attendees

This year, in addition to general optics education, we are emphasizing the theme "Optics for the Environment." Demonstrations and information will be provided about solar cells, efficient lighting (compact fluorescents, LEDs), light pollution, UV protection, and increased awareness of lighting as a significant form of energy consumption. Local vendors of energy-conscious optical products will be present. We hope that "Optics for the Environment" can provide a useful entry point for optics in your school's existing science curriculum.

Questions? Email EDAY@osa.org, call Andrew Berger at 585-273-4724 or visit
http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/berger/ for other information.

Space will be limited! Register by Friday, October 3, 2008!

To register, please submit the registration form via any of the following, or register online.

Email: EDAY@osa.org
Fax: 585-244-4936, attention to Andrew Berger
Mail: Educators' Day
c/o Andrew Berger
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0186