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Education Outreach Grants Program

Education Outreach Grants Program. Outreach Grant. Education Outreach applications must reach SPIE by 31 January 2010 or 31 May 2010 As part of its education and outreach mission, support for optics related education projects.

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Education Outreach Grants Program

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  1. Education Outreach Grants Program

  2. Outreach Grant • Education Outreach applications must reach SPIE by 31 January 2010 or 31 May 2010 • As part of its education and outreach mission, support for optics related education projects. • The award process is competitive; applications are judged based on their potential to impact students and increase optics awareness. • Qualifying not-for-profit organizations such as universities, optics centers, science centers, primary and secondary schools, youth clubs, industry associations and international optical societies are eligible for project support. • Requirements • Recipients of Education Outreach Grants are required to submit a report to the Society on how the grant was used within one year of receipt. • You may be eligible to apply for an Education Outreach Grant in multiple years only if you have fulfilled reporting requirements for any previous award. • New Education Outreach Grant applications must show new activities beyond that upon which a previous award was used.

  3. Application • Detailed project budget (showing all expenses) • Project timeline • Describe the intended use of the education outreach grant: • Up to $5.000 (2009 average grant was $3000)

  4. Somebody else's activity 2009 Outreach Grant Recipients • Catholicate College (India) - to promote optics and photonics among K-12 students in India. • Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (Mexico) - to continue and extend their activities in the "Children and Teenagers Science Club" (founded in 2004). • Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) - for outreach and to support their optics and photonics camp. • da Vinci Engineering Program, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) - materials for summer course on lasers and optics. • Grupo de Optical Aplicada (Colombia) - optics and physics awareness to secondary and elementary schools. • ICFO SPIE Student Chapter (Spain) - for K-12 outreach in optics and photonics. • Institutd'Optique Graduate School (France) – to support a science and technology exhibit for the general public. • Institute for Physical Research/Yerevan State Univ. (Armenia) - to provide some support for a workshop on modern problems in optics and photonics. • International Laser Ctr./MV Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. (Russia) - to partially provide support materials for 2-day workshop. • Koc University (Turkey) - optics and photonics outreach to K-12 students. • LatvijasUniv (Latvia) - to partially support the 10th IYS conference and to purchase the PHOTON 2 labkit for outreach purposes. • Leiden University (Netherlands) - to assemble an optics and photonics education kit • National Electronics and Computer Technology (Thailand) - to develop ideas-to-projects optics camp

  5. Somebody else's activity 2009 Outreach Grant Recipients • Taras Shevchenko Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine) - partially support the International Advance Research workshop. • New England Board of Higher Education (USA) - to assist with the production of the PHOTON Problem-Based video project. • Optics Institute of Southern California (USA) - for K-12 optics and photonics outreach. • Penn State Electro-Optics Center (USA) - supplies for the Electro-Optics boot camp for high school students. • Rochester Optical Society of America (USA) - for international youth outreach program using the Optics Suitcase. • Saratov State University (Russia) - to enhance their curriculum in the Optics and Photonics Dept. • SPIE Univ Laval Student Chapter (Canada) - to partially support the Photonics Games outreach activity. • St. Petersburg State Univ. of ITMO (Russia) - to assist with the development of a Russian optics DVD for K-12. • The CREOL Association of Optics Students (USA) - to improve their outreach capabilities by updating equipment/materials and developing new demos and tools. • Three Rivers Community College (USA) - to partially support their Laser Camp in 2010. • UnivAutonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) - to develop an optics workshop to promote optical sciences. • University of Arizona SOCk (USA) - to expand their HOO kit to enable them to work with a larger group of stud. • University of North Texas (USA) - optics and photonics outreach to undergraduate through hands-on experiences • University of Maryland SPIE Student Chapter (USA) - to provide travel & lodging for students participating at the IONS North America Conference for Students.

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