Middle School

Our booth will include activities hosted by several of USD's science clubs: STEM Outreach, Bio Club, Pre-Dental Club and Physics Club. We are return exhibitors, and our booth was a big hit last year!

Fusion FTC will showcase our competitive engineering program through an interactive robotics booth. Visitors can explore our robot up close, learn how we design mechanisms using CAD and coding, and talk with team members about the engineering design process used in First Tech Challenge. Our booth will feature live robot demonstrations, explanations of sensors and game strategy, and a sign-up station for upcoming robotics classes and workshops.

The San Diego Public Library celebrates the 10th anniversary of Spring into STEAM! This year’s theme, “Ta-Da!”, explores the science of magic through physics, optics, and chemistry for ages 6–12. We’ll feature over 50 free library programs for parents to register for and promote our teen DISCOVER programs that focus on both STEAM and college readiness programs. We are currently developing an activity, right now we are thinking of disappearing ink!

At Fusion’s booth, visitors can explore our student-designed robots from both the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST LEGO League (FLL) programs, learn how we use engineering, coding, and teamwork to solve real-world problems, and watch our hands-on robot demonstrations. Our team will showcase projects, share experiences from competitions, and provide information about classes, workshops, and programs where kids can get involved in robotics.

The UCSD Bioengineering graduate society will host a hands-on activity for K-12 students about stem cell differentiation. A groundbreaking UCSD study has shown that stem cells differentiate based on the material properties of the surface that they are on. Students will blindly feel into many boxes to feel the material properties of different materials and guess what a stem cell would differentiate into if on that material. There is then an arts and crafts section where students can make their o

We will be bringing a 3d printed heart model with blue and red LEDs lighting up tubes to show the flow of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood through the heart and how the body is supplied with oxygenated blood. Students will also have the opportunity to put on real scientist gloves and feel a real preserved porcine heart. We will also be hanging out informational pamphlets/brochures and 3D printed stents that emphasize the importance of bioengineering.

Hands-on reptile and invertebrate encounters.

We'll have a Plinko game board on site where kids can learn water facts and answer quiz questions to win prizes.