2022-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS2022 Volume 17 Intl. Symp on Non-Ferrous, Mining, Cement, Mineral Processing, Environmental, Ecosystems and Education
| Editors: | F. Kongoli, J. Antrekowitsch, T. Okura, Z. Wang, L. Liu, L. Guo, J. Ripke, E. Souza. |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Pages: | 140 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-989820-66-7(CD) |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Optics and photonics for school children
Dana Seyringer1; Claudia Franceschini2;1VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, Dornbirn, Austria; 2VORARLBERG UNIVERSIY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, Dornbirn, Austria;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 32
Topic: 49
Abstract:
Today, optics and photonics is widely regarded as one of the most important key technologies for this century. Many experts even anticipate that the 21st century will be century of photon. Optics and photonics technologies have impact on nearly all areas of our life and cover a wide range of applications in science and industry, e.g. in information and communication technology, in production, medicine, life science engineering as well as in energy and environmental technology.
However even so attractive, the photonics is not well known by majority of the people. In order to motivate especially the young generation for optics and photonics we worked out the lecture related to optical data transmission in the frame of PHORSCH! project and presented it in a classrooms at primary and secondary schools. We prepared many practical activities and experiments to explain how the modern communication through the optical networks works. Combining the hands-on teaching with having a fun while learning about the basic optics concepts we aroused interest of not only the children but also the teachers with a very positive feedback.