{"id":1099,"date":"2026-03-24T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:39:02","slug":"jervee-at-polyfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/jervee-at-polyfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jervee at Polyfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">From March 18\u201321, 2026, Jervee and members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optica.org\/\">OPTICA<\/a> Otago Student Chapter\u00a0took part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asbpolyfest.co.nz\/\">ASB Polyfest 2026<\/a>\u00a0in Auckland\u00a0as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doddwalls.ac.nz\/\">Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies<\/a>\u00a0community engagement program.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The team ran fun, hands-on light experiments to show the community how things like reflection, diffraction, and color work. It was all about making science simple, interactive, and enjoyable to connect with the community and get young students excited about science.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1100\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1100\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/ASB-polyfest1.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jervee at the DWC booth at Polyfest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March 18\u201321, 2026, Jervee and members of the OPTICA Otago Student Chapter\u00a0took part in ASB Polyfest 2026\u00a0in Auckland\u00a0as part of the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies\u00a0community engagement program. The team ran fun, hands-on light experiments to show the community how things like reflection, diffraction, and color work. It was all about making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}