Educational Technology

April 1, 2014

PPPL allows high school students to experiment with plasma online

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by Jeanne Jackson DeVoe, PPPL Office of Communications

Students at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in West Windsor, N.J., were enthralled as they watched and controlled a glowing pink plasma on a screen in their classroom through a live video stream of an experiment five miles away at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The March 12 event marked the first public demonstration of an invention that fills a gap in online education by providing students and instructors anywhere in the world with a way to take part in a laboratory experiment.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S39/51/65E95/index.xml

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