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1.1 High School Workshops Final Report
The Summer High School Fusion Science Workshop is an immensely successful
outreach activity conducted by the HU CFRT. In this workshop, we train, motivate, and provide
high quality research experiences to young and talented high school scholars with emphasis on
under-represented minorities and female students in fusion science and related areas. The
purpose of this workshop is to expose minority and female students to the excitement of research
in science at an early stage in their academic lives. It is our hope that this may lead the high
school students to pursue higher education and careers in physical sciences, mathematics, and
perhaps in fusion science. To our knowledge, this workshop is the first and only one to date, of
fusion science for under-represented minorities and female high school students at an HBCU.
The faculty researchers in the HU CFRT mentor the students during summers. Mentors spend a
considerable amount of time and efforts in training, teaching, guiding and supervising research
projects.
The HU CFRT has so far conducted nine workshops during the summers of 1996-2000
and 2002-2005. The first workshop was conducted in summer 1996. Students for the workshop
are chosen from a national pool of exceptionally talented high school rising seniors/juniors (see
section 4 below).
To our knowledge, most of these students have gone on to prestigious universities such
as Duke University, John Hopkins University, CalTech, UCLA, Hampton University, etc. after
completing their high school. For instance, Tiffany Fisher, participant of the 1996 summer
workshop completed her BS in Mathematics at Hampton University in May 2001. She then went
on to Wake Forest University at Winston-Salem, North Carolina to pursue graduate studies.
Anshul Haldipur, participant of the 1999 summer workshop, began his undergraduate studies at
Duke University in 2000. Christina Nguyen and Ilissa Martinez, participants of the 2000 summer
workshop, are pursuing their undergraduate degrees at the UCLA and Florida State University
respectively.
The organizing committee of the APS DPP annual meeting invited Dr. Punjabi to deliver
an invited talk on training the next generation of fusion scientists and engineers at the 2005 APS
DPP meeting in Denver, CO. The organizing committee distributed a special flier with the
Bulletin to highlight this invited talk and another talk on education as well the expo. This has
given wide publicity and recognition to our workshops and Hampton University. Prof. Punjabi's
talk: "LI2 2: Training the next generation of fusion scientists and engineers: summer high school
fusion science workshop, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 50, 221 (2005)" was very well-received. He
talked about HU education and outreach initiative and the HU CFRT Summer High School
Workshop. The audience had a considerable number of questions about our workshops and the
High School to PhD Pipeline in fusion science. Professor William Mathews of University of
Delaware offered to give the HU Team MHD codes to use, and Professor Birdsall of University
of California, Berkeley, plasma theory and simulation group, offered to give the team simple
simulation codes to use. We are very happy and proud and very gratified by this, and we thank
the US DOE OFES, Dr. Sam Barish and Dr. Michael Crisp for their support and encouragement.
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