Outreach:
Mohammadigoushki Group
Soft Matter | Fluid Dynamics | Instabilities | Rheology | NMR | Flow Visualization
Every year we participate in a range of outreach programs to encourage more
students to explore the STEM fields. In the following, we show some of our outreach activities in the last few years.
1. Florida Young Scholar Program:
The Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a six-week residential science and mathematics summer program
for Florida high school students with significant potential for careers in the fields of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics. Our laboratory hosted two high school students (Sara Barker and
Channing Gaufillet) from YSP in the summer of 2017. During this time, they had plenty of hands-on
experience with a range of non-Newtonian fluids, and they learned a great deal about the application of complex fluids in our daily lives.
2. Family STEM night:
To align our outreach activities with the K-12 education, the group has organized (and is going to organize!)
multiple sessions that involve hands-on experiments for students
in the local Tallahassee area.
3. Laboratory Visits:
We regularly host middle and high school students from local schools in our lab to show them some of the
interesting aspects of non-Newtonian fluids. Students get familiar with the wonders of non-Newtonian fluids and how these systems
are different from Newtonian counterparts through experiments and hands-on experience.