Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Peking University
Jun-Wei Xu
To inspire future generations, I work with non-profit organizations to engage children and youth in a wide variety of fun science learning experiences in both school and community settings.
Physics Fun and Discovery Days
This is an annual outreach program that we engage students of grades 6 to 12 in a wide variety meaningful and interesting physics activities including the Planetarium Show, Discovery Room, etc. My favourite activity is the Liquid Nitrogen Show where we make ice cream with liquid nitrogen! It's really yummy!
Let's Talk Science Challenge
Let's talk science (link) is a non-profit organization inspiring youth to enjoy and pursue STEM. We visit classrooms in high schools for a class period to do a hands-on/minds-on activity with students. We also hold an annual Challenge competition that includes exciting question and answer competition, and an interactive hands-on design challenge. In the picture, volunteers including me were helping students building ocean exploring devices with a few sticks, rubber bands and tape in the 2016 Challenge.
see judges as face-to-face role models. We usually make the students' first impression of what a scientist looks like. Thus I try to keep the communication positive and encouraging, which I believe is anther intangible yet important manner to support youth in science.
