What's New at HOO

HOO Milestones

Reaches students at the critical middle-school age when their attitudes about science and math are being formed;
Helps students connect math and science to real-world applications making it concrete and tangible for them;
Challenges students intellectually and personally in making discoveries for themselves so they learn to think like scientists;
Helps teachers improve their optics and science teaching by working closely with someone with special subject knowledge;
Provides critical resources for informal science investigation that may not otherwise be available to students in low-income areas and Title 1 school programs; and
Helps students see that science can be interesting and fun, while still getting them to think about the process and results of discovers.

The HOO program welcomes the following new participants:

Lolly Levine, Tucson, AZ, is graduating this year her first HOO program participant who has chosen to study optics engineering in college. He has received a scholarship to the University of Arizona. HOO modules made a big impression on this student!

We have been doing Hands-On Optics every week at the South Tucson Boys and Girls Club since the summer of 2006.
We started a Hands-On Optics program at the Sells Boys and Girls Club in the summer of 2006.

Thanks to a grant from the Science Foundation of Arizona, we have expanded to new sites around the state including

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