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The Mechanics of Materials series are content-rich summer workshops for middle- and high-school science teachers. The purpose is to promote stimulating new activities and instruction involving materials of modern life at the middle and high school level that will increase and sustain student enthusiasm for physical science. The materials of modern life can exhibit spectacular properties, such as the high strength of carbon composite sports equipment or the extremely small-scale circuitry within a cell phone or personal computers. We often take these ever-improving materials for granted, yet they result from the continuing application of fundamental science and advanced technologies, much of it developed at Penn State.

The workshops include informative presentations, hands-on laboratory and computer activities, multimedia curricular materials, guest research lectures, and pedagogical discussions. Participants in these courses also receive instruction and practice in the use of presentation graphics and other teaching technology which may be adapted for classroom use.

The MRSEC partners with the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium in offering this program as part of the Workshops for Science Educators series.

For more information or to register for this summer's Workshop, please visit the Workshops for Science Educators website.