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April 5, 2014
Wellesley High School
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10-2 PM...... Exhibits, Workshops,
......Student Showcase & Speakers
2 PM...... Keynote Speaker, Dr. Jeff Hoffman
......“What Happens During a
......Spaceflight — An Astronaut’s Tale”
3-4 PM...... Meet the STEM Professionals
......Student Networking Reception
ABOUT WEF
Wellesley Education Foundation (WEF) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to investing in programs that enhance, enrich and maintain
educational excellence as well as foster innovation in the Wellesley Public
Schools. Since its inception in 1984, WEF continues to provide a thoughtful
and effective vehicle for residents and businesses to show their support for the
Wellesley Public Schools through generous donations.
WEF’S IMPACT
Donations by our loyal supporters, throughout the past 30 years, have allowed
Wellesley Education Foundation to give back to the Wellesley Public Schools
(WPS) in a diverse set of ways. Over $1.6 million has been awarded in grants
and assistance to educators in the past 10 years. In the recent past, WEF has
funded and championed numerous WPS projects and initiatives including:
• 1:1 Technology Initiative launch at 7 elementary schools and WMS
• Electricity curriculum enhancement for WMS
• Leveled Literacy Intervention kits for elementary schools
• Keyboards for WHS music department
• 10 Lego Mindstorms NXT robot kits for WHS computer science classes
• Expansion of Shakespeare curriculum for WMS
• Wellesley Public Schools Strategic Plan
WEF FUNDRAISERS & EVENTS
Wellesley Education Foundation holds 5 major activities annually - 3 fundraiser
events and 2 community events:
• The Spelling Bee – (Nov) A time-honored tradition which brings the whole town together for an evening of fun and fundraising — the Bee turns 25 this year!
• The Annual Fund – (Dec) A yearly initiative that gives community residents and businesses alike the opportunity to make donations to WEF at year-end
• Chair Ceremony – (Mar) A ceremony of tradition which honors Wellesley Public School faculty and staff members who have served WPS for 25 years
• Wellesley Science & Technology Expo – (Apr) WEF’s newest event, a day-long STEM central for the entire community to enjoy and be inspired
• The Red Apple Campaign – (May/June) A program that provides parents the opportunity to recognize teachers and staff through a donation to WEF
www.wellesleyeducationfoundation.org
WELCOME to the first Wellesley
Science and Technology Expo,
a Wellesley Education Foundation event to
celebrate Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics (STEM), and inspire the
next generation of STEM professionals.
We have planned a fun day with something
for everyone: dancing robots, state-of-theart cars, hovercraft, catapults, 3D printers,
turtles, extract your DNA, sidewalk math,
in-depth workshops, and captivating speakers!
Have fun and let your curiosity guide you!
ABOUT the WSTE EVENT
VOLUNTEER at the WSTE EXPO
REGISTER to attend or sign up
for workshops at the WSTE EXPO
“WHAT HAPPENS DURING
A SPACEFLIGHT:
AN ASTRONAUT’S TALE”
2 - 3 PM
Wellesley High School Auditorium
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. JEFF HOFFMAN
Interested in learning more
about space? Check out the
activities listed on page 20.
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LOCATION: Wellesley High School Library
Take elevator to 3rd floor.
10 - 10:45 AM
12 - 12:45 PM
“CLIMATE REALITY” with
Quentin Prideaux, Partner, Alder
Associates and Leadership Team,
Sustainable Wellesley
“SMART NEEDLES AND
ROBOTIC DOCS: THE SCIENCE
(AND FUN) OF INVENTING
MEDICAL DEVICES”
Nikolai Begg, MIT PhD candidate,
winner of the Lemelson-MIT
Student Prize for Invention, and
WPS graduate
11 - 11:45 AM
Dr. Jeff Hoffman is a former
NASA astronaut, a Professor of
the Practice of Aeronautics and
Astronautics at MIT, and Director
of the Massachusetts Space Grant
Consortium. During his 18 years as
an astronaut, Dr. Hoffman made five
space shuttle flights. He logged
over 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles
in space.
After his tenure as an astronaut,
Dr. Hoffman served for four years as
NASA’s European Representative in
Paris. In 2001, he joined MIT where he
researches space flight operations
and technology, human-machine
interactions, extravehicular activity,
and laboratory research in space.
His teaching interests include space
systems design and space policy.
SPEAKER SERIES
“CHANGING INFORMAL
EDUCATION: FROM THE
MUSEUM TO THE CLASSROOM”
Dr. Elizabeth Kong, Manager
of the Hall of Human Life at
the Boston Museum of Science,
Visiting Scientist at Tufts Medical
Center, WPS graduate
Dr. Hoffman was part of the first mission to repair the Hubble Telescope.
1 - 2 PM
INSPIRING WOMEN IN STEM:
A PANEL DISCUSSION with
Jennifer Jacobs, PhD Candidate
and Research Assistant, Lifelong
Kindergarten Research Group
in MIT’s Media Lab; Pamela
Norton, Vice President for
Industry Relations and Programs,
Massachusetts Life Sciences
Center; Dr. Elizabeth Pierce,
Visiting Lecturer in Geosciences,
Wellesley College; and Dr. Ann
Trenk, Professor of Mathematics,
Wellesley College
Dr. Hoffman flew with the Spacelab
shuttle mission, during which the
orbiter’s payload bay included the
astro observatory (Astro-1).
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS
First Lego League (FLL)
ROBOT ZOO
LOCATION: Room
LOCATION: Rooms 163 and 164, Zone 4 unless noted
MA State Police Bomb Squad
LOCATION: outside
in circular driveway
Explore the Bomb Truck, watch
Bomb Detecting Robots and a Bomb
Detecting Dog in action!
Harvard Microbiotics Lab
LOCATION: Room
164
Come see bio-inspired robots that fly
like bees, crawl like centipedes, and
scuttle like roaches! Explore the new
field of soft and printable robotics —
a better way to interact with human
users. Then try your hand at building
your own devices using pop-up design!
Aldebaran
LOCATION: Room
164
Aldebaran Robotics’s NAO Robot is
the most widely used humanoid robot
for academic purposes worldwide.
The NAO Humanoid Robot allows
students to connect theory with
practice and discover a wide range
of robotics-related fields, such as
computer science, engineering, and
mathematics.
iRobot
LOCATION: Room
164
163
First Lego League (FLL) is a robotics
program which is designed to get
children excited about science
and technology — and teach them
valuable employment and life skills.
See example robots from FLL regional
coordinator.
The Boss Bates Robotics First
Lego League (FLL) Team
LOCATION: Room
163
iRobot makes practical robots
which are changing the world. From
revolutionizing how you clean your
home, to protecting our troops from
danger, their robots are making every
day life simpler, and safer. Come see how
the robots work, the science behind
the robot and get a chance to interact
with the robots up close and personal.
The Boss Bates Robotics FLL Team
was a rookie team of fourth and
fifth graders from Bates Elementary
School that competed in the 2013 FLL
Challenge, themed “Nature’s Fury.”
Olin College Bio-inspired RC
Controlled Beaver
As the first university in the nation to
offer a bachelor’s degree program in
Robotics Engineering-and the first
to offer MS and PhD degrees-WPI is
committed to providing hands-on,
practical education to tomorrow’s
robotics engineers. Participants will
have the opportunity to operate one
of the WPI/Mass Academy FIRST
robots.
LOCATION: Room
164
Explore the design process from
conceptualization to fabrication
behind a bio-inspired RC controlled
beaver used in a children’s game to
construct a lodge.
Remote Underwater Surveillance
System (RUSS) submersible
developed by MassBay
LOCATION: Room
WPI Mass Academy First
Robotics
LOCATION: Room
163
Aldebaran
Wellesley Middle School Science
Olympiad
LOCATION: Room 250
Target grade: all
Motion Commotion: Explore what
drives cars, robots and musical
instruments - a sampling of interactive
entries from the WMS team’s most
recent Mass State Middle School
Science Olympiad competition.
WHS Science Olympiad
LOCATION: Room 250
Target grade: All
Check out the Boomilever, the
Mission Possible “Rube Goldberg”,
the Scrambler egg carrying car,
and MagLev — a self-propelled
magnetically-levitated vehicle.
Participate in the Mystery Building
event to construct a structure to
perform a task!
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Visit RUSS - the Remote Underwater
Submersible System. Stop by to see
how RUSS is making a difference with
water quality in urban waterways.
Harvard Microbiotics Lab
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS (continued)
COOL CARS
LOCATION: Outside in circular driveway unless noted
Phoenix Racing —
Olin’s SAE Baja Team
Target grade: 6th - 12 grade
We are a group of students at Olin
College of Engineering who design,
build, and race an off-road vehicle.
Come check out our broken car from
last year!
MassBay Automotive Program
Target grade: All
Stop by and see the modern technology
in state-of-the-art cars showcased by
MassBay’s automotive program.
Tesla Motors, Model S
Target grade: 9th - up
Tesla welcomes you to an exclusive
electric experience. Stop by to learn
why Model S has received many of
the industry’s most prestigious awards
and accolades.
Researching Electric Vehicles at
Olin (REVO)
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: 9th - 12th
Come check out Olin College’s Electric
Vehicles team! We will have our
recently built electric go kart on display,
as well as some of our current work on
our next vehicle, the reverse trike. EARTH
WORKSHOP:
Tour the Green Features of
Wellesley High School —
WHS Green Team
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: All
See some of the green features of
the new high school and see what
the WHS Green Team is up to. Tours
offered every 30 minutes on the hour
and half hour at the WHS Green Team
table in the main lobby.
Maps can help us answer a wide
variety of questions, such as: Where
do the most earthquakes occur?
Where did my breakfast come from?
Where is the most likely place to
find pirate treasure? How long did it
take to get from Boston to Texas in
1890 vs 1930? Which states exercise
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The Stream Table —
Wellesley College
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: 3rd - 12 grade
Build your own river! Play with sand and
water and build your own model of a
river. Then build a dam, plant vegetation
on the banks of the river or drop the sea
level and see how your river changes!
Learn How Glaciers Work —
Wellesley College
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: All
Explore how glaciers flow, investigate
the glacial history of the surrounding
area, and learn about Earth’s three
ice sheets with Wellesley College
Professor Elizabeth Pierce.
The Stream Table
Best Practices for Safer
Gardening — Wellesley College
Geosciences Department
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: 9 th -12th
Learn about best practices for safer
urban/suburban gardening, while
we screen your soil samples for lead
in real time. Bring in your dry soil in
sandwich size ziplock bags!
Composting with Worms —
Land’s Sake
Interactive Maps —
Library & Technology Services,
Wellesley College
LOCATION: Lobby
Target grade: All
Registration Encouraged
the most? Come learn how we can
answer these questions (and more!)
using interactive digital maps. You can
also see your house or school from a
“bird’s perspective” or try your hand
at origami using old maps!
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: all
Dig in and discover the secrets
to healthy soil and learn all about
our friend, the worm. Take a close
look, and you will be amazed by
the unique creatures that live in the
earth all around us.
Glaciers
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS (continued)
Explore the Power of the Sun —
Sustainable Wellesley
Green Wheel of Jeopardy —
Upham
LOCATION: Zone
3
Target grade: All
3
Target grade: K - 8th
You know the sun is powerful but did
you know it could be used to power
things in your home such as lights,
electronics and much more? Come find
out how the sun can power your home.
Come take a chance at Upham’s Green
Wheel of Fortune. Answer sustainability
related questions correctly for individual
prizes as well as a chance to be
entered into a grand prize drawing.
WORKSHOP:
Meet the inventor of the Reebok
PUMP & other common products
LOCATION: Zone
Watershed in a Box — Bates
LOCATION: Zone
2
Target grade: K-5th
Explore where the water flowing from
our local brooks comes from. Where
does it go? How does what we do
affect the water? The Watershed in
a Box is provided by Charles River
Watershed Association.
LOCATION: Room 231
Target grade: 3rd - 12th
Workshop offered at 10 am, 11 am
and 1 pm. Duration: 50 mins.
Registration Encouraged
Artbotics Workshop
WORKSHOP:
Artbotics Workshop — MassBay
LOCATION: Room 243
Target grade: 3rd - 12th
Registration Encouraged
Workshop times 10 am and 11 am
Duration 50 minutes
Learn how to build your own robot,
combining the fun of art and robotics.
ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
WORKSHOP:
Introduction to Programming
with Processing with WHS
LOCATION: Room 263
Target grade: 6th -12th
Registration Encouraged
Offered 10 - 10:45 and 11 - 11:45 am
This hands-on workshop will introduce
programming in the processing
programming environment.
Processing was developed at MIT
to encourage novices to learn to
program through developing art, and
for artists to include programming as
a means of expression. At WHS, we
use Processing as a first programming
language in our introductory course.
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WORKSHOP:
Build with BioTech Stuff:
CarbonNano Fiber and Kevlar —
Mrs. Nic’s Academia
LOCATION: Room 242
Target grade: 3rd - 8th
Workshop offered at 10 am and 11 am.
Duration: 50 mins.
Registration Encouraged
Make and take home your own 3-layer
reinforced construction material,
like the honeycomb of HEXCEL
Engineering and the award-winning
innovation, GeckSkinTM, invented
by innovative scientists at UMass
Amherst. Use actual cutting-edge
materials; experiment with adhesives;
and test load-bearing strength.
WORKSHOP:
Build and Re-engineer Platform
Toy Car — Mrs. Nic’s Academia
LOCATION: Room 242
Target grade: 3rd - 8th
Workshop offered at noon and 1 pm.
Duration: 50 mins.
Registration Encouraged
Using wide wheels and metal axles,
make a basic small car. Challenge
yourself to design a passenger
or driver’s seat, a sensor, and tiny
attachments to make the car go faster
or farther or spin. Test your skills in a
rally or game. It’s yours to keep.
Meet the inventor of the Reebok
PUMP shoe and a leading innovator
and engineer. Eric Cohen has been
involved in many of the world’s leading
products, such as the Reebok PUMP,
Swiffer, the newest Pampers diaper
(yes engineers work on diapers too),
and the first form-fitting bicycle
helmet. Mr. Cohen will lead a handson innovation workshop where
participants can explore their creative
design skills using a common material
found in nearly every home!
WORKSHOP:
Learn Animation —
Planet Nutshell
LOCATION: Room 239
Target grade: 6th - 12th
Workshop offered at 1 pm.
Duration: 60 mins.
Registration Encouraged
Hang out with the animators from
Planet Nutshell and learn how we
use technology to create our videos,
from concept to animation. We will
deconstruct a few of our videos and
show the process we used to create
them. This will include a walk through
of the animation tools we used to
create these scenes.
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS (continued)
Learn Video Tricks and Program
Cool Gadgets — MathWorks
Get Hands on with Raspberry Pi
— Wellesley Code Academy
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: 9th - 12th
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: 6th - 12th
Have you ever wanted to: make your
math/science homework easier? Play
cool tricks with images and videos?
Learn how to program a robot to
operate on its own? Build your own
device to do whatever you want with
Raspberry Pi (that’s not a dessert!)?
Stop by the MathWorks booth and
see how real world engineers build
cool gadgets with our tools!
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card
sized computer that plugs into your
TV and a keyboard. It is a capable
little computer which can be used in
electronics projects, and for many of
the things that your desktop PC does,
like spreadsheets, word-processing
and games. It also plays high-definition
video. We’re going to use it to do
some fun demos using the Python
programming language. Come try it
out and take a byte of Raspberry Pi!
See a 3D Printer in Action
LOCATION: Lobby
Target grade: All
Who needs construction paper when
you can build a construction truck?
3D printing or additive manufacturing
is a process of making a threedimensional solid object of virtually
any shape from a digital model. Stop
by the 3D printing station to watch
bracelets and other objects appear
right before your eyes.
Touch Table —
Wellesley High School
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: All
Experience programming on a WHS
student-built touch table (a giant
tablet).
Wellesley Public School
1:1 Program
LOCATION: Room 219
Target grade: All
See how iPad technology has been
incorporated into the 5th grade
curriculum by exploring a few of
the apps that students are using:
Tellegami, Book Creator, and 5 Dice
(Math App). Find out how the pilot
program has been going and learn the
plans to roll out the 1:1 program for
next year’s incoming 6th gradeclass —
another WEF supported initiative.
Riding in a Hovercraft
Come Design and Build a
Mini-Catapult! - Olin College
Engineering Discovery
LOCATION: Zone
3
Target grade: K - 5th
Using common household objects,
create a medieval invention and
discover what makes it work. You’ll
be able to find out what parameters
affect the performance of your
catapult, like arm length, baskets
and more! Use iterative design to
successfully hit a target, and best of
all, take your catapult home!
Fun with MaKey MaKey and
SCRATCH — Dana Hall
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: All
This year Dana Hall marks its first
all iPad academic year. Come find
out how to program in SCRATCH
or connect MaKey MaKey kits with
Play-Doh or fruit instead of keys on a
keyboard! It’s fun for all ages- connect
a few alligator clips and see how you
can program and what you can create!
Build a Small Hovercraft then
Ride in a Big One — Explo
LOCATION: Room 226
Target grade: All
Welcome to the world of hovercrafts,
where air becomes fuel and where
a small push forward can send you
soaring. Come build a working
hovercraft you can take home — and
ride an even bigger one across the
room! Using Newton’s Laws of Motion
and Bernoulli’s Principle, we’ll help you
build and track-test a mini hovercraft
that is the fastest, most durable, and
straightest flyer around. Once you
have it flying (we mean hovering) as
it should, you’ll get your ticket to ride
one of the, ahem, larger ones.
Experience WHS TV Studio
LOCATION: Room 176
Target grade: All
Try your hand at making a video in the
WHS TV Studio!
3D printed bracelets.
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Explore Electricity, Solar and
Wind Power — the Center for
STEM Education, Northeastern
University
Robotics Lab
LOCATION: Room
Target grade: All
Come see the WHS Botball Robotics
team in their own lab. The Botball
Educational Robotics Program
engages WHS students in a teamoriented robotics competition, and
serves as a perfect way to meet
today’s new common core standards.
LOCATION: Zone
2
Target grade: 3rd - 12th
Learn about the types of circuits,
key terms, and the various forms of
electricity (in light, sound, and stored
energy). For wind energy, students
will be introduced to the wind turbine
design, and will create blades for their
own turbine to test. For the solar
activity, students will focus on how
solar electricity can be generated,
stored, and utilized in homes,
buildings, and other infrastructure.
Take Apart Tech Lab — Hardy
LOCATION: Room
215
Target grade: K - up
Explore this hands-on room with
pieces and parts galore! Grab a tool
and take apart a cell phone or a
computer to see what’s inside these
devices and learn what components
make them work.
Learn About Design and
Manufacturing
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Dress Code
DressCode — Lifelong
Kindergarten Group,
MIT Media Lab
LOCATION: Zone
3
Target grade: 9th - 12th
DressCode is computer aided design
and fabrication tool that combines
programming with graphic drawing
and manipulation, allowing novice
programmers to create computationallygenerated, physical artifacts.
Design a Balloon Powered
Vehicle — Tenacre Country Day
School
LOCATION: Zone
5
Target grade: 6 - 12th
5
Target grade: 3rd - 8th
See how you take a concept and
translate it into a real world product.
Compare the 3-D prototype to
the final product and learn about
manufacturing processes with
Component Solutions.
Engineer and test a balloon powered
vehicle out of recycled materials. After
measuring performance, modify your
vehicle and test it again.
LOCATION: Room 158
Target grade: All
Check out the room where WHS
students learn computer aided design
(or CAD) enabling designers to create
everything from airplane wings to
furniture. Stop by to see the students
working on projects.
LIFE SCIENCES
WORKSHOP:
“Genes in a Bottle” Extract Your
DNA — Science Club for Girls
LOCATION: Room 248
Target grade: K - 8th
Registration Encouraged
Have you ever wondered why you look
like your mom and dad and how that
information is stored? In this activity,
scientists from Boston University,
Wellesley College, and Science Club for
Girls will help you to purify your own
DNA, visualize it, and then to make a
personalized necklace containing the
molecule that makes you, you!
LOCATION: Zone
WORKSHOP:
Can Exercise Make our
Brain Work Better? —
The Science of BOKS
LOCATION: Room 227
Target grade: K - 12th
Registration Encouraged
Our question: Can exercise improve
a person’s memory? Experience firsthand the impact that exercise has
on your brain with trainers from the
Wellesley BOKS team. Workshops
every half hour.
Wild and Wacky Plants —
Wellesley College Botanic
Gardens
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: K - 12th
Wild and Wacky Plants
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3D Design & CAD Lab
Meet some very special plants from
the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens’
collections. Explore plants that move
when you touch them, plants that trap
insects, plants that don’t need soil to
grow, plants that look like they were
designed by Dr. Seuss, and plants that
grow in Fibonacci spirals. Why do
plants grow like this?
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS (continued)
Fun with Fruit Flies —
Brown University
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: 3rd - 12th
Have you ever wondered how
scientists figure out how our bodies
work? Biologists often use fruit flies in
the lab to figure things out because
they are simpler than people. Come by
and visit our glow-in-the-dark flies!
Understanding Diabetes
and Obesity - University of
Massachusetts Medical School
LOCATION: Zone
1
Target grade: K - 12th
Learn about the epidemic of diabetes
and obesity, their relationship and how
our lifestyle (diet and exercise) can
affect this disease. Also learn how we
use genetic engineering and animal
models in research to better understand
this disease and find a cure.
Brain Booth - Wellesley College
Neuroscience Program
LOCATION: Room 246
Target grade: K - 8th
Our brains control everything we do,
including how we move, learn, think
and feel. At the Brain Booth, you will
get to hold a real sheep brain and
learn the basic parts of the brain and
what they do. We will also explore a
real human brain that has been sliced
in different ways and embedded in
plastic. We’ll learn about brain health
and look at images of healthy and
unhealthy brains. Finally, you can
make your very own “brain hat” and
watch some interesting videos related
to the brain.
New England Animals —
Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm
Wildlife Sanctuary
LOCATION: Room 216
Target grade: K - 12th
Meet a Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm
Wildlife Sanctuary Teacher Naturalist
and visit with New England animals!
Separate DNA by learning about
Gel Electrophoresis —
Boston Leadership Institute
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: 6th - 12th
Participants will see how gel
electrophoresis is used in DNA research.
The Plantmobile — Massachusetts
Horticulture Society
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: K - 8th
The Mass Hort Plantmobile is a
traveling plant science workshop that
provides experiential educational
programs. Flower to Seed...and
Back Again! Why do plants produce
flowers? Students learn that the
answer isn’t “just to look pretty!”
Students will discover the connection
between flowers, fruit, and seeds by
dissecting and examining plants.
Digital Microscope — Schofield
LOCATION: Zone
1
Target grade: All
SLAM DUNK
SLAM DUNK — Wellesley College
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: 6th - 12th
What is your foot type? Do you have
a high, low or neutral arch? Do you
pronate or supinate when you walk/
run? How does your foot type relate
to choosing the best performing
athletic shoe? Students will learn
how to choose athletic shoes based
on their foot type and gait analysis.
Students will be filmed in the walking
gait using Ubersense. Also students
will discover what common injuries
are associated with arch types and
abnormal gait.
Analyze Blood — IDEXX
LOCATION: Room 216
Target grade: 6th - 12th
Analyze artificial animal blood using
SNAP bloodwork assay like you would
in a hands-on veterinary medical lab.
More than just the naked eye. Come
explore Schofield’s digital microscope,
purchased from a WEF grant, and
view live on our 5th graders’ iPads.
Brain Booth
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES
MATH
Math Olympics —
The Russian School of
Mathematics (RSM)
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: 3rd - 8th
Join us for fun games, based on
Winter Olympic sports, that show how
math is part of every-day life!
Hands-on Math —
Einstein’s Workshop
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: All
Which shapes will tile the plane?
Investigate Tesselation and Penrose
tiles and try your hand at putting
these types of tiles together in
different or repeating patterns. Watch
our Egg Bot printer — a special printer
that can print patterns on a real egg
or other round items.
Sidewalk Math — MassBay
Crowd Sourcing — MassBay
LOCATION: Zone
1
Target grade - All
Input your info and see how it can
impact a larger data set.
Can you Kanoodle? — Schofield
LOCATION: Zone
1
Target grade: All
For the last 3 years, Schofield
Elementary School has offered MATH
NIGHT for our youngest students.
Come see the #1 game! Kanoodle!
Construct caboodles of 2-D puzzles
and 3-D pyramids with this brain
twisting solitaire game.
M&M’s Math — Sprague
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: K - 5th
Discover an enlightening and delicious
way to explore numbers with M&M’s.
LOCATION: Zone 5
Target grade: PreK - 3rd
Stop by to play a game and learn
about math concepts.
Laser Maze — MassBay
LOCATION: Zone
1
Target grade: K - 5th
WORKSHOP:
Color: What, How and Why
We See — New England
Optical Society
LOCATION: Room 238
Target grade: 6th - 12th
Registration encouraged
Explore the nature of light and how
we perceive color. We will describe
various light sources and how they are
used in common applications that we
encounter in everyday life.
WORKSHOP:
Wacky, Zany LINX Science Show
LOCATION: Room
165
Shows at 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm
Target grade: All
Registration encouraged
Get ready to participate in the Wacky
and Zany Interactice LINX Science
Show. Help the LINX scientist and
his un-expecting assistant, unlock
the mysteries of their Shaving Cream
Blaster, Toilet Paper Throwing Machine
and tons of other messy and gross
experiments! CAUTION: You will
laugh, you will scream and you will
learn science!
Ferromagnetic Art —
Club Invention
LOCATION: Zone
3
Target grade: K - 8th
Come see what you can do using
mirrors and a laser beam.
Science on the Street
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: All
Can you define gravity? See if you
can manipulate a strobe light to make
streams of water appear frozen in
place, flowing downward or defying
gravity. Design and construct your
own paper rocket and launch it into
the sky. Build mountains, carve rivers,
and watch as virtual rain streams
down the mountainside, pooling into
ponds at the base of the mountain in
our Augmented Reality Sandbox.
Bernoulli’s Principle and the
Science of Flying
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: K - 8th
Guide a ping-pong ball through a
maze with a hair dryer and learn
about the science behind flying.
Construct a light up, magnetic LED
Sparks to toss at a picture for high
scoring points!
M&M’s Math
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS (continued)
Mysteries of Water — Girl Scouts
LOCATION: Zone
2
Target grade: All
Experiment with water and see if
you can bend water using a comb
and static electricity. Learn about air
pressure and surface tension through
a mystery water suspension activity.
“Egg-bert ‘n’ Ice” —
Mad Science of Greater Boston
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: K - 5th
Come enjoy a fun interactive science
experience and witness a series of
chemical reactions using ice that
doesn’t melt, see bubbling potions
concocted, and help unlock the
mystery of how to use science to
get Egg-bert into and out of his flask
house!
Optical Demonstrations —
New England Optical Society
LOCATION: Zone
1
Target grade: All
Learn about Polymers —
the Langer Lab at MIT
Newton’s Laws of Physics —
Fiske
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: 6th - 12th
LOCATION: Zone 5
Target grade: K - 5th
We develop and demonstrate novel
materials for biomedical applications
including drug delivery ranging in size
from nanoparticles up to macroscopic
devices. Our exhibit will include
hands-on experiments using safe
materials to introduce concepts such
as polymerization, spherification,
encapsulations, and basic principles of
diffusion, appealing to a new trend of
molecular gastronomy.
Come initiate and experience simple
activities that demonstrate the impact
of inertia, changes in acceleration
when a force is applied on different
masses, and equal and opposite
actions/reactions. All activities use
everyday household objects, and are
sure to surprise!
Explore the Physics of Figure
Skating — Olin College
LOCATION: Zone
5
Target grade: 6th - 12th
Have you ever wondered how figure
skaters create spirals? Stop by to
learn how a skater controls his or
her orientation to follow different
trajectories during a turn.
Experience Air Pressure —
St. John School
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: All
Air pressure is a magical force we
often take for granted. Stop by to
see/hear what happens when air
pressure is removed; watch water
vaporize, listen as noise is silenced,
and see a feather fall as fast as a rock.
Fun with Discovery Museums
LOCATION: Zone 1
Target grade: K - 5th
New England is full of technology
based on the science of optics. The
New England Optical Society will
demonstrate the principles behind flat
panel displays to telecommunications
to telescopes with our optical
demonstration suitcases. We will have
our giant kaleidoscope and other
hands on denmonstrations.
Experience some of the many hands
on learning exhibits you can find
inside the Discovery Museums Acton
location. Play with magnets, sound,
light and more.
Bubble Mania
Bubble Mania — Schofield
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: K - 5th
Everyone knows bubbles are
fun. Come discover why they are
interesting too!
Make a Bubbling Lava Lamp —
Hunnewell
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: K - 5th
Using simple ingredients and a little
knowledge of chemistry, you can
learn how to make a “lava lamp” and
understand how it works.
Blue Slime - Pfizer
LOCATION: Zone 2
Target grade: K - 5th
Make everyone’s favorite polymer,
SLIME. Learn about states of matter
and yes, you can take your slime
home!
Physics of figure skating
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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONS (continued)
SPACE
WORKSHOP:
WEF Planetarium
LOCATION: Room 247
Shows at 10 am, 10:45 am, 11:30 am,
12:30 pm and 1:15 pm
Target grade: K and up
Registration encouraged
LOCATION: Zone 4
of a museum - 70 pounds! See a piece
of the famous meteorite that struck
Chelyabinsk, Russia last February!
Put on 3-D glasses for an interactive
3-D display of images from the Moon,
Mars, and some space missions. Take
a ride on a Segway! Learn how they
balance on only two wheels! (Segway
rides are fun for ages 8 and older.)
See the stars! Experience the night
sky in its full glory without light
pollution in a Starlab portable
planetarium. Learn how to find
the North Star, ask questions, see
the Milky Way, see the southern
constellations. All in a comfortable,
cooperative, small group atmosphere.
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Target grade: All
Space Exploration —
Clay Observatory
Think like an engineer as you design,
build and test a “satellite” to hover in
one of our wind tubes.
LOCATION: Zone 3
Target grade: All
Design Challenge: Soaring
Satellites — Museum of Science,
Boston
LOCATION: Zone
The EXPO Student Showcase is, in part, a collection of posters and
projects submitted by the local elementary schools, middle schools and
high schools in Wellesley. In the Showcase, you will find representation
from school-based enrichment activities/programs that help promote
and engage students in the areas of science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEM). You will also find a collection of information
from student clubs that are focused on STEM. Alongside this material
are posters, projects and items created by students of all ages and across
various stages of STEM learning. Come see what unique and fun STEM
activities students in the Wellesley area are doing!
MEET THE STEM PROFESSIONALS
STUDENT NETWORKING RECEPTION
LOCATION: Faculty Dining Room
3 - 4 PM
Meet people with exciting STEM careers! Talk to programmers, inventors,
entrepreneurs, scientists and other STEM professionals and learn about
how they got interested in their respective fields, what educational
pathways they followed and what they like most about their careers.
See and touch a real piece of NASA
history! The nose wheel from the
STS-114 mission of Space Shuttle
Discovery! Step on planetary scales to
weigh yourself on other planets! See
how much you weigh on the Moon,
Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto! Touch a real
rock from outer space! This is the
biggest meteorite you will see outside
WHAT’S NEXT?
Space Exploration
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
If you had fun today, consider learning more by investigating our What’s
Next Listing of local STEM opportunities, a compilation of local internships,
camps, clubs and classes pertaining to STEM. This list is not exhaustive but
highlights some of the cool opportunities available around us.
See the list here:
www.wellesleyeducationfoundation.org/events/
science-technology-expo/wste-what-s-next
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MathWorks proudly supports the
Wellesley Science and
Technology Expo
The Biogen Idec
Foundation
proudly supports the
Wellesley Science
and Technology Expo
in igniting a curiosity
and passion for science.
THANK YOU
SPONSORS
Cisco
Patriot Renewables
Biogen Idec Foundation
Intex
MathWorks
Thermo Fisher Scientific
OTHERS
Paige Adams
Bio-Rad Science Ambassadors
Dr. Dean Blase
Julie Boehm, Robert Cohen,
Nora Curran, & Julie Spilka
Busy Bee Jumpers
Liz Callanan
Cameron Press
Carolyn Collins, Jany Finkielsztein,
Kate Morton, & Michael Quillan
P. A. d’Arbeloff, Peg LeGendre, &
staff of Cambridge Science Festival
Nancy Dobos, Dobos Design
Addie Doherty
Kathleen Dooley
Kelly Friendly
Andrea Giroux
Phylliss Hill
Matthew Hornung
Kate Lester
Linda Looft
NOTES
Dr. David Lussier
Craig Mack
Elise MacLennan
Microsoft
Sophie Scott
Starbucks, Linden Square
Swellesley Report
Phyllis Theermann
Kevin Thurston, Executive Director,
MetroWest STEM Education Network
Annalisa Weigel
Wellesley Council on Aging
Wellesley Education Foundation
Board Members
Wellesley Free Library
WHS Honor Society
WHS Key Club
Wellesley Media Corporation
Wellesley Patch
Wellesley Police Department
Wellesley Public Schools
Wellesley Public School PTOs,
St. John, St. Paul, Dana Hall
and Tenacre
Wellesley Townsman
Wellesley Weston Magazine
Tom Zinck
A big thanks to all our exhibitors,
speakers, workshop leaders, showcases, and volunteers who helped
make this event come to life.
STEM EXPO STEERING COMMITTEE
Katey Goehringer, Chair
Anne Marie Cronin
Julia de Peyster
Marybeth Martello
Sheila Olson
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Rama Ramaswamy
Sue Sours
Kristen Toffer
Beth Willett
EXHIBITS, WORKSHOPS, & SHOWCASE FLOOR PLAN
First Floor
A
C
1
D
2
4
3
F
B
E
Second Floor
KEY
5
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 3
Zone 4 / Robot Zoo
Zone 5
B
A
B
C
D
E
F
Cool Cars
Bathrooms
Café
Keynote Speaker
Elevator
Meet the STEM
Professionals
E
Third Floor
Speaker Series: Please take elevator
to library on 3rd floor.