We need financial help to keep this program afloat beyond July 2008.
The major costs of the program are
three-fold.
- Hiring undergraduate student
presenters. All the presentations are
done by undergraduates and they benefit from this experience in many
ways. The undergraduate students get a chance to help elementary and
middle school children, improve their public speaking skills and
understand basic physics principles better. The
school children certainly connect better with the undergraduate
presenters rather than university professors.
- Van rental and associated costs.
We transport all the equipment
from UCI to the schools in a cargo van. A new
or used van is big on our list of requirements.
- Remuneration for faculty who
train the undergraduates and manage
the
shows.
The cost to keep this program running
over the entire year (three
quarters) is
about $35,000 to reach about 10,000 school children in the Orange
County area.
The cost is lesser (by about $7K) if we don't have to rent the van.
If you have any questions about opportunities for supporting this
program,
please send an email to Prof. Manoj Kaplinghat (mkapling@uci.edu).
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