This month, we’re starting the latest monthly series that highlights various active student organizations inside the STEM community. This month YSU STEM is featuring the Society of Physics Students, also knows as SPS.
SPS is really a student organization that has a objective of combining faculty and students who share interests in physics, astronomy along with other STEM-related fields. The organization meets once a month, where members hear guest lectures, learn and discuss recent advancements in scientific fields and plan future events and activities. Events and activities include guest lectures, planetarium shows, and trips to regional physics meetings, just like the Ohio-Region Portion of the American Physical Society. SPS President Martin Strong said they are also famous for their many pizza parties, and you don’t even have to certainly be a physics major (or any STEM major) to participate in!
“Students should join SPS once they express any involvement in physics and astronomy,” Strong said. “We are an extremely active club, which hosts many guest lectures and events. SPS allows students to turn into more aware of the school members as well as the research they conduct at Youngstown State University. Each member will leave every meeting knowing something totally new, interesting, and if I may say, mind-blowing with regards to the field of physics and astronomy, if they have a powerful math background or not.”
Currently, SPS is taking care of arranging their first Grill-Out Within the Stars event, where club members and students meet at the conclusion of the varsity year to be able to out and consider astronomical objects through telescopes that allows you to officially eliminate a sluggish start summer break.
If anyone has an interest to join SPS, they will see a Department of Physics and Astronomy to have their name combined with the e-mail list. Also, SPS-hosted guest lectures are open to anybody who would love to attend.
