Projects and Events
Current Semester
For the Spring 2006 Semester, we have a lot happening with the club!
  • Science Outreach programs at local schools (Starting 3/1/06- email for more information.)
  • Hayden Planetarium Trip (3/22/06) (Pictures Here!)
  • Telescope Day (4/11/06; 8:30pm) (Pictures Here!)
  • Lecture: Meta-geoscience: the Reality of Nature and the Nature of Reality

Speaker: Michael Schoenberg,Visiting Scientist, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l. Lab (Abstract)

(4/20/06 at 6:00pm in BNO 106)

  • The Second Annual Fairfield University Egg Drop (4/29/06, 4:00pm) Bannow Atrium.
  • Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony (5/7/06) (Pictures)
  • Physics GRE Master Class
  • Ongoing Wave and Hydroelectric research

Future Projects

For the upcoming semesters we have many more items in store, for physics majors/minors as well as events to get the whole campus involved!

  • Trips to cool places!
  • Science Outreach programs at local schools
  • High end research
  • A rematch with the engineers once the Trebuchet has been repaired!
  • Snow Tower Competition
  • Design and deployment of a java-driven telescope on the roof of the science building that can be controlled online by the campus community and beyond
  • And Much Much More!
Past Projects

A quick look with some pictures of the things we have under our belt since we started back up towards the end of the Spring 2005 semester: (Click on links for subpages)

Fall 2005
  • 10/11/05 (7:00 PM)
    Field trip and discussion with Mr. Vincent Battaglia of BML Tool regarding careers in sciences.
  • 11/20/05 (1:00pm)
    Design and construction of a Trebuchet (Pictures Here!) with which we competed against the engineers in a fierce battle of pumpkin flinging
  • 12/2/05 (12:30pm)
    Field Trip to Sikorski Aircraft Manufacturing to learn about the processes and possible careers
Spring 2005
  • Rocketry Madness (Pictures Here!)
  • The First Annual Fairfield University Egg Drop Competition (no pictures...TONY!!)

Ideas? Questions? Problems? Email us! Brendan or Dr. Beal.