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
