Physics students participate in Paterson pre-eclipse outreach event
‘Casting Shadows’ event explained eclipse science to Paterson children and families.
On Sunday, March 3rd, Physics & Astronomy Department faculty and students participated in an outreach event at the Paterson Museum. The event—Casting Shadows: Everything you need to learn about the Eclipse—was co-organized by the Hamilton Partnership for Paterson and included participation by the National Park Service, which manages the Great Falls National Historical Park. The event focused on explaining the upcoming solar eclipse to children and family. Physics majors Renzo Herrera and Stephanie Montoya, along with Prof. Marc Favata, set up one of several stations in the Paterson Museum to explain eclipse science. This included a demonstration of the bending of light by the Sun, a set-up showing how to safely view the Sun via projection through a pair of binoculars, and flyers (in English and Spanish) explaining eclipses and their connection to Einstein’s theory of gravity.
