The OSA Student Chapter Education Outreach Library is an online portfolio that enables student chapters to share information, presentations, experiments and other educational tools and outreach materials.
The Library contains nearly 100 educational resources for promoting and fostering optics-related outreach to elementary through high school students. All OSA chapters are encouraged to post descriptions of their outreach activities and download presentations and demonstrations from peer chapters. Access to this resource is free to all chapters.
Getting your chapter’s user name and password:
- Designate one representative who will be responsible for your chapter’s access to the Outreach Library.
Once your representative is assigned, your chapter will have access to all the information in the Library and will be able to post outreach materials, pictures and discussion topics.
Fast Facts about the Education Outreach Library:
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Access is FREE to all student chapters (one user name and password per chapter, contact OSA at: chaptersandsections@osa.org).
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Content is continuously updated and includes: presentations, experiments, reference tools and other educational resources.
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Information is organized and searchable by age range, subject and material type.
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Chapters are able to post and update their outreach and reference materials.
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Chapters are able to participate in discussion streams and can post questions, propose new projects, and receive feedback from peers at other chapters.
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Library contains picture files featuring snapshots from other chapters and OSA chapter events.
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Easy to follow guidelines for posting materials.
Special thanks to the student chapter members from Duke University, University of Southampton, University College of Dublin, Cornell University, Carleton University – University of Ottawa, and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal for creating and managing this library!
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