Middle School

Genentech

The theme of our booth will be Bridging Biology and Engineering to turn DNA into Medicine. We plan to have 2 stations within our booth; the 1st will be geared toward elementary school age children and the 2nd toward middle school/high school aged children.

FIRST Tech Challenge Dragons 5229, from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego

The Dragons are the only FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team in the world to apply green energy to the competition. The students will display and discuss their solar charging station that they use to keep their robot charged during competition. The Dragons will also provide a hands-on activity where visitors to the booth will drive a FIRST Tech Challenge robot, and try to score "points" in a simulation of a FIRST competition.

C2 Education SAT Jeopardy

C2 Education will provide an interactive Jeopardy game that offers students and parents the opportunity to answer grade level questions in SAT subject matter including Math, Reading and Writing. Every participant will receive a certificate for a free academic consultation and be entered into a drawing for prizes to be awarded during the course of the expo.

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.

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