SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER AT THE

INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA, ÓPTICA Y ELECTRÓNICA President: Esteban Rueda Soriano (estebanrs@inaoep.mx) Vice-President: Enrique Rodriguez Aboytes (quilloe@susu.inaoep.mx) Treasurer: Miguel Angel Loredo Robledo miguelius@inaoep.mx) Secretary: Benito Canales Pacheco (canales321@inaoep.mx) Professor Advisor: Rubén Ramos-García(rgarcia@inaoep.mx)

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SPIE STUDENT CHAPTER AT INAOE

1.- María de la Paz Hernández Garay 2.- Rosario Guadalupe Porras Aguilar 3.- Sandra Eloísa Balderas Mata 4.- María Luisa Cruz López 5.- Mario Enrique López Medina 6.- Adalberto Alejo Molina 7.- Ibis Ricárdez Vargas 8.- Luis Ignacio Olivos Pérez 9.- Benito Canales-Pacheco 10.- Gerardo Díaz González 11.- Miguel Loredo-Robledo 12.- Beatriz Morales-Cruzado 13.- Helen Janeth Zúñiga Osorio 14.- Edmundo Rodríguez Vázquez 15.- Juan Carlos Juárez Morales 16.- Óscar Javier Zapata Nava 17.- María de la Luz García Cruz 18.- Daniel Rojano Guido 19.- Alberto Sánchez Castillo 20.- Luis Rodríguez Castillo 21.- Brasilia Cabrera Pérez 22.- Juan Carlos Valdiviezo Navarro 23.- Raul Ochoa-Valiente 24.- Esteban Rueda 25.- Jaime Gutierrez Gutierrez 26.- Ileana Guizar Iturbide 27.- Reyle Mar Sarao 28.- Miguel Velásquez de la Rosa Becerra 29.- Iván Hernández Romano 30.- Miguel Bello

31.- Daniel López Cortés 32.- Anmi García Arellano 33.- Joel Herrera Vázquez 34.- Mauro Sánchez Sánchez 35.- Gabriela Molar Velázquez 36.- Ángel Sinué Cruz Félix

INTRODUCTION Next is the Report about all the activities that SPIE student chapter at the INAOE have performed between May 2007 and April 2008. All these scientific and cultural activities has been performed with such enthusiasm about knowing that a lot of persons can have access to scientific talks and, why not, get interested on Physics or Optics sciences for living.

ACTIVITIES.

i. Participation at the National Week of Science and Technology (Semana de Ciencia y Tecnología) at INAOE in Tonanzintla, Puebla.

ii. BBQ to increase number of members of the chapter. iii. Participation at the 2nd International Fair of Reading, performed at the

INAOE on February 14 to 17, 2008. iv. Participation at the Total Eclipse of Moon, performed at the Zocalo of

Mexico City. February 20th, 2008. v. Cultural Film Projections “Cine entre amigos”.

A successful Workshop

Part of our work as a Student Chapter consists of developing techniques to explain and understand the optics science in order to motivate to others. One way to do this is by building little and easy to understand instruments with low cost materials, such as telescopes, microscopes or periscopes. We are sure that this represents an attractive way to teach and understand the optics.

One of the simplest instruments is the periscope because is easy to

build using only two mirrors and a piece of cardboard. This instrument was the motivation of the Periscope Workshop as a part of the activities of the 2st International Reading Fair (FILEC) organized by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Tonantzintla, Puebla.

This event was very important in the state of Puebla because was

the framework of the 66th anniversary of the National Observatory foundation, today INAOE. This way almost 20,000 children of different schools were invited to participated in these activities. Although there were almost 74 different activities and workshops, it was necessary to participate with the kaleidoscope Workshop.

The success of both workshops was evident with the building of approximately nine hundred kaleidoscopes and almost one thousand periscopes. This was possible not only with the participation of each member of our Student Chapter, but also with the collaboration of invited friends and parents who were working together for four days from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. What a experience!.

In our personal opinion, it was an exciting and hard experience with

many positive results respect to our organization and collaboration in a great event. By other hand we now know that the simplicity of the periscope was very accepted for the kids and easy to understand. This way, the Periscope Workshop has been required for other schools and visitors who have come to the Institute. The most important fact is that children can understand and explain the optics inside of the periscope.

This is an example of how we can improve the teaching and learning

of optics science for children. In fact, with this kind of workshops we have motivated to others, including old people, so that they can research a little bit more about the applications of optics. We would like to increase the number of workshops with the brilliant ideas of our members.

14va. Semana Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. 14th National Week of Science & Technology. This activity was performed from November 22nd to November 28th 2007. 150 children with secondary-school level from 3 different schools were invited to INAOE in order to give receive talks about Optics given by SPIE chapter members. After the talk, all the children were invited to see and play with many different experiments such as Color mixture, Wave Propagation, Interference, Fiber Optics basics and Diffraction. In pictures can be seen the talk that was given before they could see and interact with the experiments. This talk was about the principles of Optics so they could have information about the “why” and “how” of all experiments.

Maria Luisa giving the talk to all students that assisted to the Event. In next pictures can be seen how the students observed and interacted with all of the experiments.

Maripaz and Benito with an Experiment Reylé and Enrique talking about Wave Propagation.

Maripaz with other group. Rosario performing mixture of Colors.

2nd International Fair of Reading

2a Feria Internacional de Lectura (FILEC)

FILEC Workshops Kaleidoscope and Periscope Workshops were given at the FILEC 2008 (Feria Internacional del Lectura – International Fair of Reading) where approximately 20,000 persons participated in both workshops from February 14th to 17th at the INAOE.

a) The Kaleidoscope Workshop was given to public in general, in which they received information about the principles of

reflection and the visual effects of this beautiful instrument. The required material for each kaleidoscope was prepared in a kit, such that each person could build their own instrument with a simple instruction. This workshop was a great experience because we could see a lot of kids and old people, enjoying and playing with their kaleidoscope.

b) The Periscope Workshop was also prepared for all kind of public. The fundamental idea was to give a brief explanation about the instrument and its applications. Each person, who was interested in this workshop, could build its own periscope using very simple materials. The result of this workshop was extraordinary because a lot of people were interested in the periscopes and also in Optics Science.

a) Kaleidoscope workshop

Introduction to the kaleidoscope workshop

Juan Carlos, Miguel Angel, Reyle and Benito at the kaleidoscope

workshop.

People of Social Service giving support to SPIE chapter members b) Periscope workshop

Valdivieso, Joel and Juan Carlos at the Periscope Workshop Participation in the Total Moon Eclipse. SPIE members gave support to INAOE in the Total Moon Eclipse Event on February 20th, 2008, this activity took place at the Mexico City main downtown (Zócalo). Telescopes were carried to the Zócalo so that people could get the basic information about this phenomenon and see with more precision the effect of the eclipse. Approximately 1,000 persons observed this wonderful phenomenon.

Juan and Raul installing the telescopes

People watching the Total Moon Eclipse

BBQ Activity

Picture after enjoying the BBQ. On November 22nd of 2007, a BBQ was performed in order to get more members to the chapter. For this activity SPIE and OSA chapters put together all their efforts and the final cost of the whole BBQ was half and half between two chapters. For this BBQ all new students and professors from Optics Department were invited and each chapter gave an informal talk about all activities performed and new projects to do.

Students, professors and members enjoying the BBQ

SPIE chapter information posted at the BBQ Event

Future Activities 1. - Increase the number of Workshops. We already have the kaleidoscope, periscope, and the photography workshops. 2. – Continue with informal talks about Optics and Tours to Optic Labs for students from kinder garden to undergraduate level. 3. - Participation in SPIE conferences. 4. – Participation with minimum 2 workshops in the 3rd International Fair of Reading (Feria Internacional de la Lectura, FILEC), in Tonantzintla, Puebla on February 2009. 5. – Continue with the magazine to promote Science; this Project was supported by SPIE and OSA. The name of the magazine is “Light Hunters” and the New Committee is: Juan Carlos Valdiviezo, Juan Carlos Juárez, Benito Canales Pacheco and Enrique Rodriguez Aboytes. 6. – Increase the parts of the Optical Kit, (each workshop is part of the Optical kit). 7. - Continue with the Cultural Film Projections: “Cine entre Amigos”. 8.- Buy a Projector in order to give Powerpoint Presentations, Scientific Films or enlarge details of an experiment in almost any location. Part of the Budget necessary to buy it is written on the Financial Report. 9. – Next new activity to be performed is to have guided visits to Industry. Date for the first Company to be visited will be settled in next weeks.

Financial report In this table we show the financial movements from May 2007 until December 2006. All quantities are given in American Dollars. *1 Budget for next Light Hunters Magazine has been assigned. New committee of the Magazine will receive it when Magazine is ready to be printed: Juan Carlos Valdiviezo, Juan Carlos Juarez, Benito Canales Pacheco, Enrique Rodriguez Aboytes. *2 Budget for a Projector has being created, it will be bought with next Financial Grant. Date Description Income Outcome Total Sept-07 Beginning balance $1347.64 $ 1347.64 Nov-07 BBQ-INAOE $120 $1227.64 Jan-08 SPIE Activity Grant Feb-08 “Cine entre amigos” – Cultural

Film Projections $47.16 $1180.48

Feb-08 Budget for Light Hunters Magazine*1

$250.0

Apr-08 Budget for Projector*2 $943.39 Ending Balance $1180.48 Activities performed in parallel with INAOE, material is financed by INAOE.