Since 2004, Dr. Porras-Aguilar has been active in Science Promotion. She has been involved in Education and Public Outreach activities over the past decade including workshops, conferences, science fairs, several radio interviews, among others.
The Physics and Optical Sciences in collaboration with the Center for STEM Education at UNC Charlotte, February 2020.
Dr. Porras-Aguilar has serve as a Facilitator in the SPIE Student Leadership Workshop in various ocasions.
Outreach in Mexico
Dr. Porras-Aguilar is committed to education with diversity and inclusion. Convinced that the outreach activities can convey a message with gender equality, she became the official advisor of the SPIE Women in Optics Chapter at INAOE in Puebla, Mexico, in 2016. With this vision in mind, this chapter has implemented various workshops based on optics to inclusive audiences. Together with Dr. Porras-Aguilar, the chapter organized a Journey to discuss the role of women in Science for schoolgirls in October 2017 and in August 2018.
Journey “Science for School Girls,” Puebla, August 2018.
Dr. Porras-Aguilar continued to advise the student chapter up to August 2018, despite her relocation to UNC Charlotte in 2017.
Women in Optics – SPIE Student Chapter at INAOE. March 2018, Mexico.
The opening event of the SPIE WiO Student Chapter at INAOE. February 2017, Puebla, Mexico.
Dr. Porras-Aguilar giving the Seminar “Light from the Micro to the Macro Universe” at the National Science Fair of Science and Engineering, Concytep, Chiapas, Mexico 2016.