Outreach ideas

I'd really like to learn how to do a podcast with some of the animation software. I think there are some good opportunities to get out into the public and bring some attention to the MAS, farmer's markets, sporting events and the Amherst Common would be good places to set something up. Getting a hold of Heath Hatch would be great for a physics podcast. I have a friend who is a master's student at Umass Lowell and he works across the hall from the lab that tests baseball bats for college baseball, it would be cool to see how that works. I think we could do a podcast that focuses on the physics behind sports(any type), sort of a spinoff of the tv-shows ''sports science'' and ''time warp''. We could possibly do a podcast on how we use ideas in science in our everyday life even though we may not be aware of it. My project for this semester will hopefully be a consensus of where we(the university, the student body, the pioneer valley, the commonwealth) are with regard to our relationship with evolutionary biology and where it is we can go from here. I'd like to interview people about their opinions and knowledge of the field and maybe offer them some topics within evolutionary theory and see where that goes, perhaps I could interview some professors as well. I think it's important for people to understand the basics of Evolution since it is the unifying component within the study of life.