For our booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival this Friday-Sunday April 15-17. We need a few volunteers to help with our activities (simple machines and robotics). Email systemic@nvcc.edu to volunteer for a 2 hour shift – we’ll pay for parking and lunch will be provided. See you there! More info about the EXPO here.

We’re partnering with FCPS to host STEMtastics – STEM workshops for middle school girls – this Saturday 3/12 at the Annandale Campus from 8am to 12pm. Click here for a brief overview of the event.

Come to an exciting, hands-on STEM Symposium on Saturday, March 12 from 9am-3pm at the Nysmith School in Herndon.

Activities for the day will include hands-on experiments for children, student science fair projects, panel discussions, info about STEM-related internships, 40+ Interactive exhibits, including UAVs, flight simulators, smallsats/drones, physics experiments, topography models, heart monitors, 3D printers, robotics, safe cybersecurity practices, connected cars and others.

Free of charge and fun for the entire family! For more info click here.

Click here for more info.

A two day EXPO at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on April 28-29, 2012 – over 3,000 fun, hands-on, interactive activities and 150 stage shows for all ages. There will be stuff for the mildly curious to the science professional. You can learn about fun topics like the science of the magic of Harry Potter, the mathematics of jump roping, the physics of superheroes, the chemistry of Thanksgiving Dinner, the engineering of baseball bats and balls, the science behind special effects in movies, trends in Global Warming, renewable energy sources of the future.
 
You can operate state-of-the-art robots, laugh with science comedians, be mesmerized by science magicians and mathemagicians, converse with astronauts, Nobel Laureates, storm chasers, science celebrities like Bill Nye the Science Guy, cast members of the MythBusters, Big Bang Theory and NCIS, and even scientists of the past, fly a fighter jet simulator, enter a virtual reality environment, be a CSI agent, learn how to transform your car so it can run off a cuisinart….and you can get info about scholarships, internships, mentorship and future jobs.

You can find out all the details at:  www.usasciencefestival.org