The Delta Academy for middle school girls visited the University of Delaware campus on April 8th 2016. The visit, which was co-hosted by the University of Delaware NOBCChE student chapter, allowed the students to explore exciting areas of scientific research through hands-on science experiments with graduate students. Jolie Blake, NOBCChE student chapter president and a graduate student in the Gundlach research group, demonstrated how light can interact with matter with a particular foucs on the fluorescence emitted from excited nanomaterials.