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[The following was provided by UMKC’s Department of Physics.]

On Friday August 25, 2011, more than 500 students from UMKC and several area high schools participated in the annual UMKC Department of Physics’ Physics Phest, held in Flarsheim Hall’s labs and classrooms and on the Quad.

Organized by members of the department’s faculty and staff, the event gave attendees the opportunity to ask professional and student scientists about their research, tour research labs, watch physics demonstrations and try hands-on physics-based activities. The Phest offered students the opportunity to meet with faculty and students from the Physics Department as well as from Mathematics & Statistics, Chemistry, Geosciences and the School of Computing and Engineering.

Others present at the event included science teachers from area high schools and members of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City.