Projects & Community Service

-     This semester, we are going to be working on building a yttrium barium copper oxide ceramic superconductor. This superconductor will exhibit fascinating magnetic properties when cooled to extreme temperatures (through Liquid Nitrogen). When cooled to extremely low temperatures, it will repel magnetic fields and thus appear to be levitating in air. This is partly an illusion as the magnet it is placed on also pushes in the opposite direction, but doesn't move since it's fixed. When levitating, the superconductor experiences very low friction, similar to an air track.

-     Another thing we can do this semester is to help out our community more by cleaning up parks, feeding the homeless, and promoting overall education in our community. This will typically occur on Saturdays of the weeks where we don't meet as a club. We are also thinking of getting together this Saturday ( February 8th) on campus to design new recycle bins to place around campus.

Here is a video that explains some of the effects of superconductors.