Service & Engagement
ΘνΓΓΙη BIGS: Partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters program in the Great Boston area, ΘνΓΓΙη BIGS provides Boston College students the opportunity to serve as mentors to young people in Boston. It’s a great way to get involved in the Boston community, make a difference in a young person’s life, and meet other ΘνΓΓΙη students who share similar passions.
: Founded in 1994, Science Club for Girls fosters excitement, confidence, and literacy in STEM for girls and young women from underrepresented communities with free, experimental programs.
We are working withΒ Β at MIT, who is an expert in mechatronics, robotics, programming, and automation, to develop free, educational games that are exciting for K-12 students and engage them with the quantum world of materials. The two particular games we are currently developing areΒ Quantum Moire DesignerΜύ²Ή²Τ»εΜύQuantum Adventure. Hope they can be online shortly and the links will be provided here.
Together with Fangzhou, we will incorporate a program of LEGO AFM into our on-campus and community outreach activities for K-12 students. One can use LEGO blocks to build a macroscopic atomic force microscope (AFM) demonstrating the basic operation principle: a low-power laser light reflects from a mirror onto a particular position of the ruler. The position can be controlled by the height of the mirror. (Video credit to Dr. Fangzhou Xia)
Reference reading:
. Hsieh et al., auSMT Vol. 4 No. 2 (2014)