11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

How Teaching Students to “Think Like a Physicist” led to the ANU MakerSpace

15 Dec 2022, 14:00
30m
Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R4

Adelaide Convention Centre

Invited talk AIP: Education AIP: Education

Speaker

John Debs (Research School of Physics, The Australian National University)

Description

This presentation tells the story of how my hands-on approach to physics education led to the ANU MakerSpace – a highly successful, interdisciplinary, and openly accessible makerspace. I will share some highlights from my experience.

Author

John Debs (Research School of Physics, The Australian National University)

Presentation materials