The USC-OSA Student Chapter and USC-EPS Young Minds Section is a group financed by The Optical Society (OSA) and the European Physical Society (EPS). It is formed by PhD and degree students from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) and one supervisor of the Faculty of Physics. Its main goal is to promote and diffuse Optics in the society. For this purpose, the group carries out several activities in the academic and non-academic community. The group is also committed to the professional development of our members and motivates the exposition of our work into the scientific community.
USC-OSA is a student chapter whose objective is to bring Optics knowledge closer to the non-optics community. The activity developed at the Hospital school was one of the most important last year. It was consisted in a few Optics experiments and workshops with hospitalized children of different ages and pathologies. The experiments had to be adapted to their physical conditions with the aim of everyone could participate. We think this activity has several benefits including spreading Optics through children meanwhile they have fun and forget their illness for a while.
KEYWORDS: Photonics, Projection systems, Astronomy, Mirrors, Colorimetry, Linear filtering, Social networks, Prisms, Optical filters, Education and training
The USC-OSA Student Chapter has been constituted in March 2013 by members of the University of Santiago de
Compostela (USC) in Spain and sponsored by The Optical Society of America (OSA). It is formed by five graduate and
one undergraduate students with the common interest in Optics and Photonics research and a professor of the USC is
also involved as a faculty advisor. We decided to start this group with the aim of involving kids, precollege and
undergraduate students in the world of Optics and Photonics. The activities that the USC-OSA Student Chapter members
intend to realize are mainly educational tasks for the spreading of knowledge in Photonics by means of basic
experiments, demonstrations and lectures by leading researchers and teachers. Most of the needed resources to
accomplish these activities are provided by the OSA, such as educational posters and a portable kit for demonstrating
Optics to students. At this moment the USC-OSA Student Chapter is carrying out several activities, as educational
journeys at the Santiago de Compostela University Hospital Complex (CHUS), where hospitalized children can approach
to Optics through some simple experiments and games. A teaching program is also being organized in collaboration with
Galician secondary schools in order to show students the importance and uses of Optics and Photonics and to arouse
their interest in this field, as well as encouraging them to develop their scientific thinking. Another activity will take
place in November during the Science Week, which includes a program of lectures targeted to undergraduate students
and an exposition of several demonstrations
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