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By
MUHYEDDiN ERCAN
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Brief Introduction
• Our chapter was founded
in 2002 with 13
undergraduate and 2
graduate students.
• Now we have 14
undergraduate and 4
graduate students.
• Pre-registration
members for
2006:20
undergraduate.
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Activities
• For kids age within 11-15 named “Optics
for Kids”
• For undergraduate students named
“Optical Instruments and Their
Applications.”
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Optics for Kids
1) 11th April: Eyuboglu College Observatory
Journey.
 The observatory has the second biggest
telescope in Turkey.
Our aim was to demonstrate telescopes.
 We observed the Sun
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Photos from Eyuboglu College
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2) 18th April: Teaching Telescope Making
The kids learnt how to make telescope
They made their own telescopes
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Photos from Telescope Making
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3) 2nd May: Science Festival for Kids
The festival took one day long
We demonstrated mostly optical
instruments such as telescopes, lenses,
microscope etc.
We made also some experiments from the
Optics Discovery Kit, which we got from
OSA.
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Photos from the Festival
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FORMULA G-1
PROJECT
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OUR MOTTO IS:
‘$20.000 & 20 PEOPLE’
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Optical Instruments and Their
Applications for Undergraduates
1) Trip to Eyuboglu College Observatory
We made another journey to Eyuboglu
College Observatory with undergraduate
students at Koc University.
We introduced telescopes and made
observation.
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Photos
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2) Little Trip to Microphotonics Research
Lab.
 We went to Microphotonics lab for a little
course about lasers with undergraduate
students.
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Photos from the Research Lab
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Distinguish Speakers
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Consequently
We will continue to our activities named
“Optics for Kids”, and “Optical
Instruments and Their Applications for
Undergraduates.”
Our projects were published in Kule
Magazine around the universities and
gotten attentions.
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Kule Magazine
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http://www1.ku.edu.tr/files/kule/haziran2004/KULE8.pdf
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