Marshall Barnes to Speak at ITSCO Innovation Education Event Tuesday

Sept. 22, 2015 - PRLog -- Research and development engineer, Marshall Barnes will present the findings of his research into advanced STEM education at the ITSCO Innovation Mixer event at Shadow Box Theater in the Arena District of Columbus, OH, today between 5:30 and 8:30. ITSCO is the Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio and this will be the second time that Marshall has presented an approved talk for the organization. The first was in April of 2012 when he discussed his ground breaking STEM program, SuperScience for High School Physics, a program that presents multi-media, interactive demonstrations of what is actually going on in the world of advanced concept science and technology to high schoolers and sometimes younger.

The name of Marshall's talk is The Oppenheimer Strain and How Students Are Smarter Than We Think. It is derived from his breakthrough work which proved a theory by J.R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, which was there were children playing in the street that could solve some of his top problems in physics because they had modes of sensory perception that he had lost long before.

Marshall has tested students from Bexley, OH, Grandview Heights, OH, Worthington, OH and from several schools in Columbus, OH and proved conclusively that between 20% to 33% of the students could catch errors made by such luminaries as J.R. Gott of Princeton, Kip Thorne of Cal Tech, Michio Kaku of City University of New York and even Stephen Hawking. Marshall has won recognitions from local and state governments for his work and his work was accepted as a talk for the 2014 100 Year Starship Symposium and published in the proceedings as an example of an education effort that can prepare students for education challenges inherent in the oncoming space economy.

"Children as young as the elementary grade level could easily be taught the basics of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, etc. but as Lee Smolin reported in his book, The Trouble with Physics, there are colleges that won't even allow freshman to take such courses. It's all a part of how our culture is being held back instead of accelerated, and the biggest part of the problem is that the wrong people are in charge. We need visionaries in places of leadership".

Marshall has an extensive background in a variety of fields, at the experimental or cutting edge, what's called "advanced concept". He is most widely known for his work in the ongoing development of warp drive, the first engineer involved, dating back to 2000. He's also made a name for himself as the person who has caught more errors that Stephen Hawking has made than anyone else in the world. He is often the subject of news media stories and interviews on a regional, national and international level.

Marshall will present at the ITSCO event (see https://www.itsco.org/innovation-mixer-2015) tonight at 8PM EST.