Volunteers are encouraged to coordinate activities worldwide to show pre-university students and educators how photonics impacts the daily lives of all around the world. Light is a fascinating and familiar topic for young kids and a goal of the IEEE Photonics Society is to demonstrate how a photonics and optics career can be made part of their future.
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The IEEE Photonics Society is encouraging its volunteers, chapters, educators, community partners, and affiliate universities or companies to participate by holding small events, hands-on activities or classroom presentations in their local communities.
Activity examples: bring a child to work for the day; organize an event with an after-school program; and volunteer to give a presentation in an inclusive pre-university school classroom, i.e. elementary, middle school and high-school.
To volunteer with the IEEE Photonics Society, please email: PhotonicsSociety@ieee.org
Volunteers can also share their STEM programs through the IEEE TryEngineering STEM Portal. By sharing your pre-university STEM programs we can enable IEEE volunteers around the world to learn from your program successes.
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