During 2007, the Universidad del Valle Student Chapter presented a proposal for developing an educational outreach
activity for children from an underprivileged zone to the Optical Society of America Foundation (OSAF) and to SPIE.
The activity was carried out jointly by OSA and SPIE Universidad del Valle Student Chapters in the hillsides of
Santiago de Cali, in a zone known as "Pueblo Joven" during 2008. It was aimed to boys and girls with ages between 8
and 13 years and was called "Experience the magic of light and color". The main purpose was to bring the children some
basic concepts on optics and to encourage them to explore science through optics. The Universidad del Valle Student
Chapters designed a series of talks and practical workshops where children participated in hands-on experiments that
easily explain the fundamental concepts of light phenomena. Afterwards the children presented their achievements in a
small science fair offered to the community and tried to explain in their own words what they learned and built. In this
work, we present the most successful experimental designs and the educational standards we tried to develop with this
activity.
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