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The Kutztown University Physics Club also serves as our Chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS), a national organization. This semester (Spring 2012), we plan to continue developing our laser project. We're building laser projection devices that will respond to audio input, which we intend to install in the Planetarium for use by students and the KU community. We'll be hosting the annual Cantalobber contest this Spring, which brings several schools, universities, and other groups together in a contest to launch a cantaloupe the farthest distance. (This is our own version of the "Punkin Chunkin" contest.) Stay tuned here for the 2012 Cantalobber date and information about entering the contest. The Physics Club will also be participating in the 2012 Centraleastern Regional Science Olympiad by judging the "Magnetic Levitation" competition. During this competition, students from regional middle and high schools will be construciting self-propelled magnetically levitated vehicles and anwering questions about the physics involved. The Science Olimpiad will take place on the KU campus during Spring Break, on Wednesday, 14 March 2012. In November 2011, the Physics Club presented laser light shows in KU's Planetarium. They featured music by Pink Floyd (The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon), The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, U2, and Metallica. Casey Quenzel has a good friend who works at the Plasma Physics Lab in Princeton, NJ, and he gave us a Saturday morning tour of the facility in October 2011. In Fall 2011, we began work on our own laser projection devices, and we also made some ferrofluids and built a large electromagnet to manipulate them. |