hj135500
Dec 9, 2013
Undergraduate / I braced myself for a bombardment of questions ; UBC- volunteer experience [3]
Open to any suggestions, willing to give back. The topic is: Tell us more about one of the activities you listed above, explaining what your goals were, what you did to pursue them, the results achieved, and what you learned in the process. (maximum 200 words) I am at 241 words :( Due in several hours
A blended scent of water and mechanics awakened my senses upon entering the Science World, reaffirming the duty that I was acutely aware of on the first day of my volunteer; I was to attract, engage, and educate the public in the wondrous concepts of everyday physics, given my arsenal of science toys such as dropper popper, Cartesian diver, and spectrometer. Whilst changing into my uniform and setting up the demo table, I braced myself for a bombardment of questions and to counteract them with accurate and professional answers. On the last flip of the explanation manual, I was feeling quite confident and ready to confront the public; the result, however, was disastrous. Upon the uncontrollable flow of crowd, the initiative was soon at the hands of the kids, who, after finding out the use of the toys, ran the demonstrations themselves and ceaselessly reached out their hands to try. The concepts of buoyancy force, difference in pressure, diffraction of light, the law of action-reaction that I fervently reiterated and burned into my memory, never came to light. It took me awhile to regain the control of the table, and to realize the beauty of interactive learning: education came naturally and by their own will, rather than through enforced teaching, and the knowledge was for them to seek. I learned to ask questions, how they figured it work, rather than expecting them, and also to never get the kids too excited.
Open to any suggestions, willing to give back. The topic is: Tell us more about one of the activities you listed above, explaining what your goals were, what you did to pursue them, the results achieved, and what you learned in the process. (maximum 200 words) I am at 241 words :( Due in several hours
A blended scent of water and mechanics awakened my senses upon entering the Science World, reaffirming the duty that I was acutely aware of on the first day of my volunteer; I was to attract, engage, and educate the public in the wondrous concepts of everyday physics, given my arsenal of science toys such as dropper popper, Cartesian diver, and spectrometer. Whilst changing into my uniform and setting up the demo table, I braced myself for a bombardment of questions and to counteract them with accurate and professional answers. On the last flip of the explanation manual, I was feeling quite confident and ready to confront the public; the result, however, was disastrous. Upon the uncontrollable flow of crowd, the initiative was soon at the hands of the kids, who, after finding out the use of the toys, ran the demonstrations themselves and ceaselessly reached out their hands to try. The concepts of buoyancy force, difference in pressure, diffraction of light, the law of action-reaction that I fervently reiterated and burned into my memory, never came to light. It took me awhile to regain the control of the table, and to realize the beauty of interactive learning: education came naturally and by their own will, rather than through enforced teaching, and the knowledge was for them to seek. I learned to ask questions, how they figured it work, rather than expecting them, and also to never get the kids too excited.