Outreach

2017 Teen Science Cafe in Whiteville, NC
As part of the Museum's Teen Science Cafe, Lex visited and talked about the intersection of modern physics and daily life.

2016 'Meet me at the Museum' in Whiteville, NC
Lex Kemper ArticleThe talk was entitled “Quantum Mechanics and You: How Modern Physics Intersects with Your Daily Life."  He brought the floating superconductor demo (seen in the picture), and talked about modern physics that you see every day! The local newspaper even wrote a nice article about it.

 

2016 Night at the Museum

As a part of the 2016 North Carolina Science Festival, Lex demonstrated some of the
microscopic aspects of materials science using magnets.  Both adults and kids are amazed by magnetism!


2015 ORaCEL Educational Outreach
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On October 2, 2015, a group of high school students from Triangle Math and Science Academy of Cary, NC came to visit the labs in Partners III for the ORaCEL outreach program.  Lex gave the opening talk, which was aimed at inspiring the young students. Science is, after all, performed by motivated graduate and undergraduate students!