Combine labs, demos and field trips to reinforce learning and fun.
- Energy Matters – Learn more about the energy transformation that charges seemingly invisible gases, revealing their plasmic spectral signature in a group demonstration focused on chemical reactions.
- Discover Your Universe Field Trip – At the Stocker AstroScience Center, South Florida’s only research grade telescope helps us study objects millions of miles away – including identifying celestial bodies by viewing (and deconstructing) their spectral wavelengths.
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- Discover Mantis Shrimp vision – Learn how Aquarius Reef Base allows researchers to make discoveries about the visible spectrum of light available to these creatures and about the different ways this has been used in bioengineering and biomedical fields.
- Create crypto-valentines – Some things may seem invisible when they are really hiding in plain sight. Harness the power of numbers and letters to encode secret messages while learning the history of clandestine communications.
Discover real FIU research and community engagement efforts.
- Stocker AstroScience Center – Made possible by a gift from Dr. Carl Stocker, our center expands research and educational opportunities for students while offering the community up-close encounters with the stars.
- Researchers across the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Physics contribute to developing new knowledge in this area. Explore their work.
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