Workshop helps prepare teachers to bring lessons on fusion energy and plasma science and plasma to the classroom
Workshop helps prepare teachers to bring lessons on fusion energy and plasma science and plasma to the classroom

More students may be learning about the potential of fusion energy as a clean, green and carbon-free source of electricity this fall thanks to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s participation in Princeton University’s Quest 2023 teacher preparation program(Link is external) for sixth- to 12th-grade teachers. 

Shannon Swilley Greco, a senior project leader in PPPL’s Science Education Department, co-taught a one-week workshop July 17 to 21 for 15 teachers from across New Jersey on “Phenomenal Fusion: Energy and Climate Justice.”  

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College women find kindred spirits at Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
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“The purpose of this conference was to reiterate to these students that they have a right to science, they have a right to the joy of physics, and of discovering science,” said Shannon Swilley Greco, the senior science education program leader at PPPL who organized the conference. “I’m hopeful the conference gave them the language to confront systemic discrimination and the tools to identify it, to survive and to dismantle it.” ‘’

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