During the one-hour program, students perform experiments in magnetism and electricity, role playing as scientists and engineers, turning the knobs, making changes to the experiments and suggesting new ones. A highlight is the largest Van de Graaff electrostatic generator ever to visit local schools. Students use the machine to discharge one million volts of electricity, creating lightning-like displays that crackle and make the air tingle with electric charge. Large auditorium audiences can be accommodated. The Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium participates in NASA's educational outreach program.
Graduate students visit local high schools and discuss careers in science and technology.
For the past seven years, he has taught a segment on the principles of electricity and batteries to the third grade classes in the three elementary schools in Reading. Each class conducts a series of experiments using batteries, bulbs, and motors.