Scottish Science Teachers Visit LSMSA

10/23/2018

Two U.K. teachers were able to visit LSMSA on behalf of LIGO in Livingston, LA.

On Monday, Oct. 22, the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) welcomed two Physics teachers from the United Kingdom on campus. The two teachers were Drew Burrett, an instructor at the North Ayshire Council in Irvine, Scotland, and Julie Boyle, a teacher at Hutchesons Grammar School in Glasgow, Scotland.

Burrett and Boyle were able to visit LSMSA’s campus on behalf of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston, LA. Their visit to the U.S. was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The two visited and observed LSMSA’s Physics III course, taught by Associate Lecturer of Physics Mauricio Escobar. During the class, Escobar gave students a lecture on gravitational forces between large masses.

LIGO is a research facility dedicated to studying gravitational-wave astrophysics. It is operated by Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is offered support by the NSF. In 2016, the facility made headlines for detecting previously-theorized “gravitational waves” that Albert Einstein had predicted in his Theory of Relativity.

Like a college campus, LSMSA provides a diverse number of science courses which include Radiology, Zoology, Robotics, Botany, and much more. For a more in-depth look, visit www.LSMSA.edu/sciences.

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Julie Boyle (left) and Drew Burrett of Scotland.

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