The Wellesley Education Foundation will hold its annual Wellesley STEM Expo (PDF) on Saturday, March 28, 10AM-4PM, at Wellesley High School. It’s free and open to the public of all ages, with a packed agenda of over 75 exhibits, 15 different workshops, a keynote speech by Dr. Sheila Nirenberg — the MacArthur “Genius Award”-winning inventor of a prosthetic eye to treat blindness — and a meet-the-STEM-professionals reception for high-school students:
10AM-2PM — Exhibits
Robot Zoo: Cool and Practical Robots; VECNA Robots; Mass State Police Bomb Squad; Robotic Tuna Fish; Remote Underwater Surveillance System; Maze Solving Robots; Robot Bugs, Origami Robots, and More!; Motorized Paper Airplane Dispenser; Wizard’s Chess; WALL-E: Building a naturally interactive robot; Aerial Drone Use of GPS Technologies; FIRST Lego League
Sports STEM: Engineering in Baseball; The Making of a Titleist Pro V1; How a Ski is Made; Soccer: Geometry of Goal Scoring; Science of Figure Skating; Hoop Dreams—or Reality? How Geometry Can Net More Baskets
Earth & Space: Sustainable Innovations; Tower Garden-Urban Farming; Safe and Sustainable Backyard Gardening; Space Exploration; When Stars Go Boom; Explore Impact Craters; Be an Astronomer; Control Your Telescope; Here, There and Everywhere; Make a Comet!; Fun in the Sun: How Solar PV Works; Watershed in a Box; Sustainable Wellesley High School Tours
Life Sciences: Go Inside a Life-Sized Humpback Whale; Power of Pollinators; The Brain Booth; The Nature of STEM; Tide Pool Touch Tanks; Understanding Diabetes & Obesity Using Mice; Natural Selection of Bird Beaks; Smart Scan App for Healthy Living; Meet the Mighty Worm; Seeds on the Move; Science of Flowers; Forensic DNA
Physical Sciences: Explore Air and Things that Float; Hands-on Fun; “Egg-bert ‘n’ Ice”; Galileo’s Acceleration Experiment: Feather vs. Lead; Explore Light and Optics; Vinny the Velociraptor; Conservation of Momentum; Science Olympiad Teams; Chemistry’s Rainbow; TEAM Power
Engineering & Technology: Build Cool Gadgets with Simulink; Bringing Software to Life; Fun with 3D Printing and 3D Scanning; Try Altered Reality, Build 3D-Print Microscope & More; MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team; Explore Tesla Model S; Mini Zip-lines!; Build a Small Hovercraft then Ride in a Big One; Building Bridges; Aerodynamics of Kites; Design Challenges; Engineer a Balloon Powered Vehicle; Fun with LEDs; Gamify: Build games on iPad; Gyroscopes and Their Use in Segways; Take Apart Lab
Math: Math Moves U; Laser Maze; Classifying the Venn Way; Math Olympics!; 3D Printed Tanagram Project; M&M Math; Can you Kanoodle?
10AM-2PM — Workshops
LEGO Lab; Science of Biomimicry; Science Theater!; Science Show; DNA Extraction; Finding & Solving Design Challenges in Stories; Learn the Basics of Coding; Planetarium Show; Build your first Android App with App Inventor!; Intro to Programming with Processing; “How I Discovered I was an Engineer”; Understanding and Drawing Fun Maps; Make a Light-Up Greeting Card; Climate Reality; Journey to the Center of the Body
2-3PM — Keynote Address
Cracking the Code to the Future of Robotic Vision, with MacArthur “Genius” Award Winner, Dr. Sheila Nirenberg.
3-4PM — Meet the STEM Professionals
Reception for high-school students