Friday, July 6, 2018
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This week has been fun at work. I have been finishing up my teaching guide on Wanda Diaz-Merced, started a new one about Fred Begay, and received word from a possible interview candidate that they would like to meet with me!
I am really happy with the work I have put forward so far. I spent a long time working on the Wanda Diaz-Merced lesson plan. She is one of my inspirations in the field with her determination to never give up. I wanted to make sure o did her, and her story, and her work justice in this lesson guide. I think I have managed it. I even had some of the other interns come in and test our the activities I created for it and they found it very entertaining.
I was able to proudly attend the LGBT STEM day celebration knowing I had helped to contribute new materials for AIP that represented the community. The interns at ACP met up at the reception and discussed the development of our projects. It was actually quite helpful, as well as entertaining. Amanda showed us the prototype for the SOCK this year, and we got to mess around with it, but i also learned from Phoebe that she was working on an article about recent developments in nuclear fusion.
Fred Begay was the first Native American to receive a PhD degree in physics. He specialized in nuclear physics, specifically fusion! So I have requested permission from Phoebe and her mentors to use her article in my lesson plan, so the student scan not only earn about Fred Begay and his life and work, but the most recent developments in the field he worked in.
I do hope to finish Fred Begay's lesson plan today, so next week I can focus on creating materials for the AAPT conference. I will be giving a 15 minute talk about the lesson plans AIP had about African-American inventors. So i need to go through our guides and pick out our lesson plans and create a presentations and script and practice.
Lots of work to do, and it is all very exciting but I should get back to it!
Stephanie Williams