Grade Level(s): High School

Date(s): Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 9am to 5pm

Location: Riddick Hall on NC State Campus (2401 Stinson Drive) - Pickup and Dropoff will be from the Riddick Hearth (the common room on the 3rd floor)

Cost: FREE!!

Description: Are you, or do you know, a high school girl interested in this question: “What is physics, and how is it used to both understand the world around us, and fuel the inventions of the future?” Did you know that students who take a physics course in high school are more likely to succeed in their pursuit of STEM careers?

The LEAP! workshop invites students to investigate these questions inside the labs of working scientists at NC State. Typical workshop topics — organized by students, researchers, and faculty from the Physics Department — have included capturing subatomic particles, solar spectra, astrophysics in the computer, atomic force microscopy of DNA, programming arduinos, organic electronics, microfluidics, fracture, and more!

The 2025 event will be held on Saturday, November 8.

Interested in volunteering or helping organize the event? Contact Karen Daniels

We thank the National Science Foundation for their support of this workshop, under grants DMR-1608097 and DMR-2104986 (to Karen Daniels) and ECCS-1933297 (to Dali Sun), as well as from the Physics Department and the NC State Science House.

Contact(s): leap-organizers@ncsu.edu

Application Deadline: October 24, 2025

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