Thank you to everybody who participated in the Optical Society of America's Educators' Day 2008 on Thursday, October 23, 2008!
By the numbers: there were approximately 78 science teachers who attended the event, out of 99 who registered and 67 who RSVP-ed within the final two weeks. There were 21 activity booths; staffers included graduate students from various universities, faculty members, and employees at several companies.
Activity sheets (i.e. lesson plans, or at least the seeds of lesson plans) are available for most of the booths from EDay. Click here to see a list of them, along with contact info for the people who staffed those activities. Teachers, we look forward to hearing from you and perhaps coming to your schools to do demonstrations!
Videos of many of the booths were recorded, thanks to a kind team from Optimax. The videos can be seen on YouTube at www.youtube.com/OSAEDay2008.
If anyone is curious to see what the invitation this year looked like, here it is.
See you all at EDay 2010 (again in Rochester--spread the word), and some of you at EDay 2009 (in San José)!