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Amandeep Gill - Public Outreach InternMentors: James Roche and Rebecca Thompson
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➡ Motivation
➡ Learning Kivy
➡ App Content & Design
➡ Experience
➡ Acknowledgments
• Freedom to choose my own project• The relation between Physics and Engineering• Current APS outreach activities
Learning Kivy• Library for game
design• Python
- high-level language- lots of uses
• Flappy Bird game tutorial
Python Kivy
App Content & Design
Content:• Selected topics • Interviews with people
from both fields• Target audience
Design:• Several iterations• Adaptable• Difficulties
- text size- text location- button location
Experience • Living in DC• Touring labs• Interviews• Working at APS• Providing input for AIP
programs• Outreach at a national
level
Acknowledgments
American Physical SocietyJames Roche
Rebecca ThompsonAshley Mumford
NASA GoddardRichard BarryDiego JanchesGail Jackson
Society of Physics StudentsSean Bentley
Kendra RedmondCourtney LemonTracy Schwab
Daniel GolombekSacha PurnellLydia Quijada
Matthew Payne