Students Blow Glass for the 2003 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
The Materials Science and Engineering Department's glass research group opened the doors to its lab for free demonstrations on hot-glass blowing, and technical information about glass in general. Several hundred Arts Fest patrons watched as students from Dr. Carlo Pantano’s and Dr. John Hellman’s research groups performed the demonstrations and provided hands-on opportunities for the public, both on Children's Day and on Friday and Saturday during the festival. They focused on blowing artistic vases, bowls, and paperweights while augmenting this with basic facts about glass-working and glass science. They also displayed posters explaining materials research at Penn State in the fields of ceramics, glasses, metals, and polymers. Many of the visitors said that both the demos and information provided a nice link to the art glass they viewed in the festival booths.
PSU student participants: Joe Ryan, Elam Leed, Dan Simon (UG), Nevin Sherlock (UG), and Woody Leed (REU-Centre College, KY)
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