2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

POS-57 Bloom Where You're Planted: Exposing Undergraduate Students to Local Research Excellence

12 Jun 2018, 18:00

1h 30m

SUB McInnes Hall (Dalhousie University)

Poster (Non-Student) / Affiche (Non-étudiant(e)) Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP) DPE Poster Session & Finals: Poster competition and Mingle session with Industrial partners/employers (2) | Session d'affiches DPE et finales: Concours d'affiches et rencontres avec partenaires industriels et employeurs (1)

Speaker

Kevin Douglas (Okanagan College)

Description

Okanagan College capitalizes on its long-standing relationship with the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, bringing students to the facility every semester. These field trips expose students to cutting-edge research, and reinforces the concepts learned in their classes. The realization that world-class research is being performed in the local community engages students tremendously. We present examples of the unanimously positive experiences of several OC students, and seek to discover other colleges which benefit from such partnerships in other parts of Canada.