Expressions of interest are now open for a FREE Photonics remote workshop for STEM Teachers providing free kit for the classroom and/or STEM Clubs.

Learn about Photonics! the science and technology of light – essential to our daily lives. Photonics underpins the internet, smart phones, laptops, medical diagnostic and treatment technologies, manufacturing, and lighting – and more. This free, 3 hour-long online teacher’s workshop will use the Photonics Explorer kit – each teacher/school that attends will be sent a free kit worth £150 (limited to one kit per school).

The remote workshops take place on the 12th and 14th of July 2022 from 1-4pm

Learning Objectives: By the end of the workshop teachers will:

• Know more about the science and technology of Photonics and how it is important to our daily lives
• Be able to use the Photonics Explorer kit to teach relevant topics in the National Curriculum to their students to different year groups at different key stages.
• Know more about the research in Photonics

The modules are designed to teach:

• Properties of light and its use in telecommunications
• Colour: perception, additive, and subtractive colour mixing
• Lenses and telescopes
• Eye and vision 
• Diffraction and Interference
• Polarisation
• A scientist’s job.

For more information about the Kits visit b-photonics.eu/en/photonics-explorer

For an initial expression of interest please contact: Dr Pearl John, Public Engagement Leader, Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton: pj@soton.ac.u

These workshops are funded by the EPSRC Future Photonics Manufacturing Hub at the University of Southampton and the University of Sheffield.