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Annual Report
SPIE CIO Student Chapter
December 2014
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A. C. Loma del Bosque #115, Lomas del Campestre
37150, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico Phone: (52) 477 441 4200 – Ext. 111
Fax: (52) 477 441 42
CONTENT
1. Introduction
2. Current Chapter Members
3. Detailed Descriptions of the Events
3.1 Workshop “Build your own telescope”
3.2 Activities with others SPIE Chapters
a) 13th Student Chapter Leadership Workshop
b) Optics Outreach Games 2014 in the SPIE Chapter Annual Meeting
c) Student Chapter poster exhibition
3.3 Activities dedicated to our member’s chapter
a) 2014 SPIE chapter officers election
b) 2014 SPIE chapter officers presentations
c) Bike ride
d) Khet tournament
e) Recruitment and pizza party
f) Recruitment and Christmas party
3.4 Outreach Events
a) Workshop for medium and high school students
b) Second Optics experiment contest
c) First robotics workshop
3.5 Chapter officers: Contact information
1. Introduction
The student chapter of the Society of Optics and Photonics from Centro de
Investigaciones en Óptica A.C. located in León, Gto. México have the purpose of
promote outreach events with the local community in different educations levels.
This year our SPIE Chapter Officers was formed by our friends and colleagues
Yolanda Yanet López Domínguez, Luz María García Encina, Jesus Pablo Lauterio
Cruz, Belem Estafanía Mancilla Escobar and Orlando Medina Cazares.
During 2014 we get several different activities involving the promotion of our SPIE
Chapter, in outreach events and activities with our members supporting the CIO
Cultural Club. We are very grateful to the support provided by our Academic
Director Dr. Luis Armando Díaz Torres, our Chapter Advisor Dr. Oracio Barbosa
and the CIO General Director Dr. Elder de la Rosa in all the events during the year.
2. Current Chapter Members
We proudly present our student chapter members with active SPIE membership.
We greatly appreciates the support provide for most of the students who actively
involved in the 2014 events.
Current membership list includes the following names:
1. Alan Bernal
2. Alan David Blanco Miranda
3. Areli Montes-Pérez
4. Arian Espinosa-Rea
5. Belem Mancilla
6. Cynthia Santiago-Lona
7. Diecenia Peralta Dominguez
8. Eduardo Nava Palomares
9. Eduardo Roco
10. Francisco Javier Gantes
11. Francisco Mejia
12. Goretti Hernández
13. Guadalupe López
14. Hector Santiago Hernández
15. Jesús Pablo Lauterio Cruz
16. Jesus Alberto Mendoza
17. Jorge Enrique Alba
18. Juan Esteban Betancur
19. Juan Gutiérrez García
20. Luis Corral Martínez
21. Luis Escalante Zarate
22. Luz María García Encina
23. Manuel Briones Reyes
24. Mariana Farías
25. Maribel Juárez Hernández
26. Mirna Barreiro Argüelles
27. Misael Barba Barba
28. Monica Martinez
29. Oscar Naranjo
30. Rebeca Baltazar-Barron
31. Teresa Porraz
32. Víctor Flores Muñoz
33. Yolanda López Domínguez
34. Yuliana Espinosa Sánchez
3. Detailed Descriptions of the Events
Below we describe the activities throughout the year, given the number of activities
we have decided to group them into four groups:
3.1 First workshop: “Build your own telescope”
The 2013 SPIE Chapter started the first workshop “Build your own
telescope”. The idea of this workshop is to promote optics through astronomy. We
know the importance of this activity for those members who are interested in
astronomy, so in 2014, the members continued working in the construction of the
Newtonian Telescope.
3.2. Activities with others SPIE Chapters
Since the chapter of the CIO interacts with other chapters from Mexico and other
parts of the world, below we describe the activities that comprise this category:
a) 13th Chapter Leadership Workshop in the SPIE Chapter Annual Meeting
2014
In the framework of SPIE Optics + Photonics 2014 Annual Conference held in San
Diego California, the annual meeting of student chapters was performed.
The purpose of the meeting was to exchange ideas, do workshops and share ideas
to improve the way optics is promote internationally. Overall, student chapters
participated from 37 countries like USA, India, Canada, Colombia, Argentina,
Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Malaysia, México, France, Japan, China and Korea to
name a few. One of the workshops organized was focused on the effective
formation of team works.
b) Optics Outreach Olympics in the SPIE Chapter Annual Meeting 2014
In the latest years, our chapter has been participating in one of the most important
activity in the SPIE Chapter Annual Meeting. This activity is the contest called
Optics Outreach Olympics.
In this contest each chapter participated demonstrating an experiment of optics,
and the CIO chapter was part of it, with the experiment named “Laser projection
microscope”.
The experiment consisted in a very simple low-cost device capable of showing the
presence of microorganisms in a water sample. The apparatus is made of
components easy to get and recycled materials, such as a laser pointer, a syringe
and water. Even though the light projected from the device allows the viewers to
see only the shadows of the objects suspended in a water droplet, the presence of
some kind of microorganisms can be detected thanks to their autonomous
movements.
The device is also fun to use and might reinforce the hygienic habits in children,
what can have a positive impact in their health.
c) Student Chapter Poster exhibition
As a way to know other chapter activities and exchange ideas about
outreach activities, a poster session is organized in the SPIE Chapter annual
meeting. CIO Chapter participated and talk to other members around the world
about our experience promoting Optics and exchange ideas in order to improve our
activities.
3.3. Activities dedicated to our member’s chapters
a) 2014 SPIE Chapter Officers Elections
The 2013 Chapter officers gave an introduction about the past chapter events and
our chapter advisor Dr. Oracio Barbosa talked about the benefits of being a
member of the chapter. With the participation of 25 of 39 active memberships, The
2014 Chapter Officers were elected.
President Vice-President Treasurer Yolanda Yanet López Luz María García Encina Belem Estefania Mancilla
Domínguez Escobar
Secretary Vocal
Jesus Pablo Lauterio Cruz Orlando Miguel Medina Cázares
b) 2014 SPIE Chapter Officers Presentations
The first activity of the chapter was the recruitment of new members as well as
renewed memberships. In such event unveiled students the mission and vision of
the SPIE chapter as well as the benefits of being part of SPIE, for example: The
annual scholarship application, discounts in registration conferences, travel grant
applications etc. We presented our planned events for the 2014.
A representative chapter shirt was presented to students who enrolled. To close
the event, a pizza party was organized in order to integrate new members into the
community and foster a friendly environment with the chapter members.
c) Bike ride
Organized by the SPIE Student Chapter, the traditional bike ride was carried out
during the 34th Anniversary of the CIO. This trip included anew the round-trip tour
of the city of León, Guanajuato to the city of Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco.
As the last Anniversary, commemorative uniforms were made, including the CIO
and SPIE logos. Researchers, students and staff of our Center participated in the
route that was around 64 km. To carry out the bike ride, some physical training
before the event was needed, including exercises in the gym. As always, for
security, a couple of institutional vans accompanied the caravan with water and
first aid kit.
d) Khet tournament
Under the celebration of the 34th Anniversary of our Research Center, the SPIE
Student Chapter organized the Khet Tournament. Here, students and staff of our
Center competed for a Khet Board Game as prize.
Because many interested people in participating did not know the game nor had
long time without practicing, several workshops were carried out in advance. Once
completed, the matches were scheduled during some days, playing all against all
as the first round. The winners passed to the second round and so on. In the end,
the final was held on the anniversary of the CIO.
e) Recruitment and pizza party
In order to add new members to CIO Student SPIE Chapter and renovate
memberships, we organized two pizza parties along the year. On both parties, we
gathered with students from Centro de Investigaciones en Optica and Division de
Ciencias e Ingenierias from Universidad de Guanajuato. We explained them the
activities that the chapter makes along the year such as the optics experiments,
the bike ride and the Khet tournament. Meanwhile, the chapter offered them pizza
and soda. A T-shirt with SPIE logo was given to the ones who become a chapter
member. As a result, we recruited 15 new members and 6 renovations during the
year.
f) Student recruitment and Christmas party
As a recognition of the support received from the chapter members, it was
organized a Christmas party exclusive for the members of the chapter. This event
was accompanied by traditional Mexican meal for this time of the year (tamales
and atole) and the breaking of a piñata. With this activity the chapter also made a
new recruiting and the renovation of some memberships.
3.4. Outreach Events.
a) Workshops for medium and high school students
As the last years, CIO Student chapter organized The High School and Optics
Workshop. As a way to motivate the young students to get involved with science,
local high schools were invited to CIO to take a tour and assist to workshops. The
exhibitions of simple experiments were done and small talks about optical
phenomena were given.
Students interacted with experiments and demonstrations and learned about
nature of light, using lenses, mirrors and holograms.
b) Second Optics experiments and photography contest
One of the main goals of our chapter is the divulgation of the optics phenomena,
trying to explain them to all the levels of education. With this purpose, it was
organized the second optic's experiment contest. The principal idea was to
motivate the involving of the chapter members and also regional students in
diffusion activities, and to explain optical phenomena with easy-to-understand
experiments.
The contest had the participation of 9 projects under the next specifications: To
demonstrate an optics basic concept; to develop simple experiments, without the
need of a laboratory and the materials utilized have to be of easy access and
preferably recycled ones.
The first places were:
3rd place - Moiré Pattern: This effect is formed by the interference pattern when
two grids are superimposed, forming white and dark fringes. This phenomenon can
be observed in the everyday life.
2nd Place – Making objects invisible with liquids: In this experiment, it is shown
how transparent objects can appear invisible in different liquids, using the property
of the refraction of light.
1st Place – Laser projection microscope: The experiment consisted in a very
simple low-cost device capable of showing the presence of microorganisms in a
water sample. The apparatus is made of components easy to get and recycled
materials, such as a laser pointer, a syringe and water. Even though the light
projected from the device allows the viewers to see only the shadows of the
objects suspended in a water droplet, the presence of some kind of
microorganisms can be detected thanks to their autonomous movements.
Prize apart, the winner experiment was used to participate In the Optics Outreach
Games 2014. For the evaluation of the experiments, researchers and directives of
CIO were invited.
The presentation and awards where done accompanied by a small reception with
all the assistants.
c) First Robotics Workshop
The First Robotics Workshop, held from 5 to 7 November on the campus of CIO of
Aguascalientes in the city of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, was attended by
nearly 90 students from 9 different Universities of the State. With support from the
Government of Aguascalientes State (IDSCEA), the goal of the event was promote
the master's degree in Optomechatronics of CIO, in order to solve problems of
industrial sectors of the State, where automation and robotics vision play a crucial
role. In this Robotics Workshop, college students of engineering in electronics,
mechatronics, mechanical and systems, divided into 17 teams, armed and
programmed a 4WD robot manipulator with 2 degrees of freedom through the
Arduino platform to recognize a path of different colors by using an optical sensor.
The prizes for the winning teams were three robots: one ROBOVIE-X (1st prize),
one BIOLOID-CM530 (2nd) and two BIOLOID-STEM (3th). Besides, each 4WD
armed robots was donated by the CIO to each participating University.
The SPIE Student Chapter was present to support logistics, to promote the
postgraduate programs of CIO, to publicize the SPIE Student Chapter, to
collaborate in teaching workshops for visiting students and to spend a guided visit
of the CIO-Aguascalientes Labs for all teachers who accompanied their students.
3.5. 2014 chapter officers: Contact Information
President: Yolanda Yanet López Domínguez Email: [email protected]
Vice-President: Luz María García Encina
Email: [email protected]
Secretary: Jesus Pablo Lauterio Cruz Email: [email protected]
Treasurer: Belem Estefanía Mancilla Escobar
Email: [email protected]
Vocal: Orlando Medina Cazares Email: [email protected]
