In 2008 The Penn MRSEC assisted a high school science teacher, Schuyler Patton, to prepare a year-long elective course on materials science for his high school, Central HS, Philadelphia. It started with one class of 33 students and it was very successful. In 2010-11, it was expanded to two sections with 66 students. In summer 2010, the Penn MRSEC offered a series of three hands-on workshops for teachers based on the laboratory experiments used in this course. The themes of these workshops were a) thermal properties and b) mechanical properties. A total of 20 teachers enrolled in these workshops, which included lectures and laboratory experiments. Due to their success, these workshops will continue to be given annually.
Teachers Lectures
Teachers Experimental Labs
