Outreach
Community Involvement
Throughout my time at UNC Chapel Hill, I have tried to be an active participant in our Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter's outreach programs. I participated in local STEAM nights at elementary and middle schools, volunteered at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) during Astronomy Days, aided with other events, and generally tried to aid our community in engaging with physics amongst other events. Many of these initiatives can be found on my CV.I held the position of outreach coordinator for my SPS chapter during my 3rd year as an undergraduate. During my position, I continued to participate in the previously listed programs in addition to being the head of our chapter's outreach board and member of the broader Physics and Astronomy Department Outreach Board. In the year prior to my appointment, a program was spearheaded for weekly volunteer days at the UNC Hospital School for physics demonstrations. I ensured this continued, and it is probably the initiative I am most proud of leading!
I also became the project lead for a Marsh White Award for a physics outreach program titled "VisPys" for hands-on physics workshops. This series of three workshops emphasized simple interest in physics for the non-physics major. We created crafts and demonstrations for those who participated. Unfortunately, the third workshop was not completed in time for this series, but its product will still be used in future workshops.
Following my time at outreach coordinator, I became the president of our SPS chapter. I continued leading our chapter by hosting events and ensuring we ran well. We hosted weekly meetings alternating between "silly" meetings like a presentation night on any topic you wanted and more serious meetings guiding undergraduates through the process of cold emailing about research and applying to graduate school.
Overall, I am very proud of the outreach I have been able to lead as a member of the physics community! I look forward to contributing to my community.