Tomorrow, Saturday, October 20, Nick Zacchia, who worked with Conny Hoehr & Mike Trinczek last summer as an undergraduate co-op, will be giving the opening talk for this year's TEDxKidsBC event. Titled, "Tips for Building Your Next Particle Accelerator," Nick is sharing how his experience at TRIUMF gave him the expertise and confidence to build his own particle accelerator. This past year, Nick and his teammates from Concordia University built a very small, though entirely functional electron accelerator as the Capstone project for their Mechanical Engineering degree.
You can see Nick's talk on a live webcast tomorrow at 930 a.m. If you have young people in your life, it's an amazing event to share with them. The majority of the speakers are elementary to high-school age and will all be sharing their moving and inspiring success stories. The TEDxKids@BC event was started to provide kids and youth a platform to inspire their peers and to create change both locally and globally.
Also during the event, Nick and Kevin Multani who was a 2012 TRIUMF High School Fellowship student, will be hosting a workshop for young participants at the event to make their own monumental project a reality. While at TRIUMF, and under the guidance of Thomas Planche and Mike Craddock, Kevin also got the bug to build a particle accelerator. In his first year of Engineering at UBC, he is planning on building a small cyclotron.
Congratulations to everyone who helped foster these young minds!
More info:
Watch the entire event, Nick's video at 6:00 - http://www.tedxkidsbc.com/
About Nick & his acclerator building team
About Kevin & his time at TRIUMF
- By Jennifer Gagne, Web Publishing Coordinator