Outreach

Today was the second day of hosting students in the lab.  As a research group we continued to show aspects of our research with a couple small activities for the students along the way.  Activities such as these are always exciting because of the opportunity to share our passion and excitement for our work.  However, they are also extremely challenging as we need to eloquently convey complex ideas to a new audience.  Additionally, there's always some great questions that can catch you off guard.  Tomorrow I will return to my "regular" work, but I have a feeling I will be haunted from a few days by the challenge of effectively sharing my work with others.  I know I can't afford the time, but I'd love to take a side track for a week or three and come up with a few animations, demonstrations and interactive simulations to punch up my outreach demonstrating and tutorial skills.  Well for now, these ideas get documented on the "wish list" and I care on with my other jobs.