Physics Fridays – Undergraduate Student Led Physics Outreach Program for K-12 KidsBy: Patrick Herron, Jordan Miller, and Kiril A. StreletzkyCleveland State University

In 2011 CSU’s chapter of SPS established an outreach program called Physics Fridays. Since then, physics students & CSU physics alumni have gone to CIS once a month through the academic year for an interactive physics exploration session with CIS students. The outreach program has won 11 Marsh W. White Awards from the National SPS. These awards have supported a large part of the spring activities in the year-round program. We strive to create a variety of fun & exciting inquiry-based lesson plans to engage kids with physics/science. Since its inception, we have had more than 55 Physics Friday sessions at CIS, each consisting of three or four different demonstrations. Many of the outreach visits followed unique lesson plans, with no outreach session repeated more than 3 times. The lesson plans were created by an SPS outreach coordinator (we have been led by six excellent coordinators since 2011) & their team of volunteers. Since 2011, more than 50 CSU students have participated in Physics Fridays outreach lesson creation & execution along the way learning cool physics & quite a bit about themselves. This presentation will highlight our motivation & discuss the challenges & successes of our student-led physics outreach program.