{"id":4504,"date":"2025-07-01T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:07:17","slug":"physics-lights-up-bright-ideas-and-brilliant-reflections-with-wv-gear-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/07\/01\/physics-lights-up-bright-ideas-and-brilliant-reflections-with-wv-gear-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics lights up bright ideas and brilliant reflections with WV Gear Up Summer Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"216\" data-end=\"447\">Marshall University Physics recently welcomed curious young minds to campus as part of the WV Gear Up Summer Academy, a hands-on program designed to prepare 10th and 11th grade students for college life and learning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"449\" data-end=\"783\">One of the highlights of the academy was a trio of engaging workshops titled <em data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"569\">Light and Mirror \u2013 Crafting Kaleidoscopes<\/em>, led by Dr. Sachiko McBride from the Department of Mathematics and Physics. Through interactive lessons and eye-catching demonstrations, students explored the science behind light, reflection, and image formation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"953\">The hands-on fun didn\u2019t stop at theory\u2014each student built and decorated their own kaleidoscope to take home, combining creativity with physics in the most colorful way.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1028\">All workshop materials were generously provided by West Virginia Gear Up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1028\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/16hTAUBiLv\/\">View additional photos on Marshall University Physics Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University Physics recently welcomed curious young minds to campus as part of the WV Gear Up Summer Academy, a hands-on program designed to prepare 10th and 11th grade students for college life and learning. One of the highlights of the academy was a trio of engaging workshops titled Light and Mirror \u2013 Crafting Kaleidoscopes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,79,53,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-physics","category-outreach","category-physics","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/physics-gear-up-202506.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}