Outreach Programs

The Baylor Physics department engages in a variety of outreach programs to enhance the educations of high school, middle school, and college students and teachers. These outreach programs provide valuable conduits to allow Baylor faculty to share their expertise and love of physics with the community off campus, both locally and internationally.

• Open Text is an ongoing project directed by Prof. Walter Wilcox of the Baylor Physics Department to develop complete texts for disadvantaged physics students throughout the world. The concept is similar to "open software" for computer programs, except the material is copyrighted to ensure appropriate use. There are 4 texts presently being developed: graduate electrodynamics, undergraduate classical mechanics, undergraduate quantum mechanics, and a very partial undergraduate electrodynamics text. These may be downloaded in various formats.

• The CASPER Physics Circus brings together the best of performance, science demonstration, and hands-on interactive displays to provide middle school and high school students an interactive, multimedia science exploration experience that they're not likely to forget.
  
  
• The CASPER Summers Program offers outstanding high school students and undergraduates an opportunity for active research participation with CASPER faculty through internships or research fellowships.
  
  
• The CASPER summer REU Program offers outstanding undergraduates an opportunity for active research participation with Baylor University faculty.
  
  
• The CASPER summer RET Program offers elementary school, middle school, and high school teachers an opportunity to participate in research with Baylor faculty in CASPER, allowing them to develop new curricula while interacting in a working research environment.