(Seguin) — Texas Lutheran University is inviting the scientist in you tohelp explore the world of physics. The long standing community tradition of Family Physics Night returns this year to TLU.
That’s according to Ashlie Ford, TLU’s director of marketing and communications.
“This year’s theme is Exploring Physics and it’s really special because NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center actually selected our Family Physics Night to be an official host of the Webb Space Telescope Community Events Initiative and starting at 5:30, we have our Society of Physics Student Public Lecture in Jackson Auditorium where the guest speaker will be Taylor Hutchison who is a six year graduate student at Texas A&M University and an expert astrophysicist and then after that, starting at 6:30 in the Jackson Park Student Activity Center, there will be the hands on activities and demonstrations and that is really the event that a lot of the younger kids and families enjoy attending and getting the chance to see those experiments and talking with our students,” said Ford.
Ford says Family Physics Night inspires those STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) lessons and heightens an overall interest in science.
“Family Physics Night has been a long-standing community event here in Seguin and it’s a great time for scientists of all ages to come to campus and interact with students in our STEM Department and interact with our Society of Physics Students and get them excited about science and also to get them onto a college campus like I said interacting with college students and learning more about science and even the different types of careers they can potentially have in STEM,” said Ford.
More importantly, Ford says this particular event is free and designed for individuals of all ages.
“It is really a great community event especially for families. We see children as young as toddlers all the way to high school students here and there’s really something for everybody to participate in,” said Ford.
Again, the public lecture portion of the evening gets underway at 5:30 p.m. It will be followed by the hands-on activities and demonstrations at the Jackson Park Student Activities Center at 6:30 p.m. The center is located in Jackson Park across from Bulldog Stadium.