Aesha Bhansali

Awarded Clarences and Jane Clay Physics Scholarship at Kansas StateUniversity, USA 2011. At Uni of Sydney I have worked in physics education. Where I developed an experiI developed an experiment (open, guided and prescriptive versions) to explore different properties of the waterbeads through experimentation of their properties like Bounce, Absorption of light, Absorption of different liquids for high school students and conducted a focus group workshop. Collected data by surveying them. Developed an experiment (open, guided and prescriptive versions) to understand "States of Matter" using waterbeads, chocolates and gummy bears. Three versions go into different depths of concepts, "Prescriptive" being the most easy for students. The experiment works on different alternate conceptions of students like, "Solids are only hard objects", "Particles can change form".
Developed the student alternate conception at MACRO, MESO and MICRO-level survey sheet by researching the papers by authentic journals and institutes.
Executed two Advancing Science and Engineering through Laboratory Learning workshops at Teach meet, Anzac National Park school 2016
Got the "States of Matter" experiment published on ASELL websiteIAttended Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education, Brisbane 2016
Attended Teach Meet and lectures at National Science Week, Sydney 2016
Attended Lecture Series on "Current Research at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras", India 2014
I have a start up 'Beyond box'