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Brief Introduction
• Our chapter was founded in 2002 with 13 undergraduate and 2 graduate students.
• Now we have 14 undergraduate and 4 graduate students.
• Pre-registration members for 2006:20 undergraduate.
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Activities
• For kids age within 11-15 named “Optics for Kids”
• For undergraduate students named “Optical Instruments and Their Applications.”
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Optics for Kids
1) 11th April: Eyuboglu College Observatory Journey.
The observatory has the second biggest telescope in Turkey.
Our aim was to demonstrate telescopes. We observed the Sun
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2) 18th April: Teaching Telescope Making
The kids learnt how to make telescopeThey made their own telescopes
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3) 2nd May: Science Festival for Kids
The festival took one day long We demonstrated mostly optical
instruments such as telescopes, lenses, microscope etc.
We made also some experiments from the Optics Discovery Kit, which we got from OSA.
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Optical Instruments and Their Applications for Undergraduates
1) Trip to Eyuboglu College ObservatoryWe made another journey to Eyuboglu
College Observatory with undergraduate students at Koc University.
We introduced telescopes and made observation.
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2) Little Trip to Microphotonics Research Lab.
We went to Microphotonics lab for a little course about lasers with undergraduate students.
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Consequently
We will continue to our activities named “Optics for Kids”, and “Optical Instruments and Their Applications for Undergraduates.”
Our projects were published in Kule Magazine around the universities and gotten attentions.