Point Loma Nazarene University
Admissions Information and Physics Displays
Music Notes Math Concert
Our math concerts have taught, engaged, and entertained countless students, teachers and parents. People of all ages enjoy listening and dancing to our math songs. Once you witness a Music Notes concert you will never look at math the same!
Waves of Migrations, & Rhythms of Cycles
Our booth will be an interactive installation. A "work" area in the first tent will teach the public about how fossil fuels are speeding up the natural cycle of global warming. Public will create a paper model molecule of CO2 from a orange tissue paper with a dinosaur print. This will be brought into the second tent, where they add it to our atmosphere model. The second tent will have canvas added to the corners to create a circular chamber (rather than square). The walls will be covered with our studies of natural migrations & cycles.
Aviation and Aerodynamics
An interactive display that will have examples of wing construction, design and evolution. Small interactive displays that will teach how a wing makes lift, why all the different designs, why the first designs didn't work, aviation/aircraft today and aviation career paths. These stations will be complimented by volunteers giving kids a chance to build an easy model to take with them or participate in a paper airplane "length of flight contest" with a small prize for each heats winner!
Ferring Research Institute
Ferring is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative treatments in the areas of reproductive health, urology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and orthopaedics; as well as a world leader in peptide and protein therapeutics. For EXPO Day 2016 FRI will have participants make a beaded keychain featuring the amino acid sequence of the peptide hormone Vasopressin.
Cardboard Video Game Controller Workshop
In this booth, we will demonstrate how to make "video game controllers" out of cardboard, foil, glue, makey makey (makeymakey.com) devices, and a laptop. Students will go through 2 different stations: controller design and testing. The design station will be cutting out and decorating a cardboard controller. The testing station will be hooking up the controller to a makey makey and using it to play 1 level of Guitar Hero, Super Mario Bros, or game on Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) on our laptops.
Engineering in Action!
The booth will incorporate several different hands-on activities (yet to be determined, but we have ideas flowing!) that incorporate engineering. Testing is in our nature and we are eager to share this with our community. When do things break? Why does a glass break at a different frequency than a brick? Why does ice melt at a different temperature than plastic? These are the kinds of questions we love to explore and find ways to improve performance of products and packaging.
SPAWAR Systems Pacific
Various hands on, interactive STEM demos
The JCVI DiscoverGenomics! Mobile Laboratory
The JCVI DiscoverGenomics! "booth" is a 40' long, 8' wide mobile laboratory that introduces middle school students to basic genomics concepts and JCVI's cutting-edge scientific research in fields such as synthetic biology and the human microbiome.
AeroED Group
Display of aerospace-related demonstration items, including manufactured parts and materials for teachers and students to handle and inspect. Information and experts will be present to offer aerospace career pathway opportunities in universities and industry. Young industry engineers, pilots, educators will engage with challenging critical-thinking examples of aerospace design, manufacturing, operation, including technical skills not requiring a college degree.
