Girls Reaching Remarkable Levels (GRRL Tech) - 3/15/12

     With some expert help from Eily Cournoyer, Anju Gupta, Aihong Xi, and Matt Preiss, the Bothun Lab hosted a workshop, Nanotechnology: What’s so big about small?, for GRRL Tech at URI. GRRL Tech exposes female high school students to STEM fields and undergraduate/career opportunities. Sixty students conducted a hands-on activity with “floating magnets” to illustrate the concept of self-assembly and how this concept is found in nature and can be used to create nanomaterials that can help solve global challenges. Supported by NSF CAREER Grant (CBET-1055652).

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    (Top) The workshop in action!  Students spent ~20 min trying to fit as many “floating magnets” into the pans as possible without causing a “chain reaction.” The magnets assembled into a hexagonal pattern.

       

     (LEFT) Dr. Anju Gupta, hailing from India’s fashion capital, working her magic during a lab tour!