Expo Exhibits
Angelo State University
Play the Biodiversity game. Use your observation skills to identify a variety of organisms from the Concho Valley and beyond.
Chemistry Magic show and hands on demonstrations.
Handheld game developed by students along with Artifical Intelligence information and demonstrations.
Angelo State University Society of Physics Students present Laser Fest 2010. Make a laser to transmit sound and write your name.
Hands on interactions with fractals including paper folding and drawing, probabilistic and technology based.
Discover your western heritage by identifying species of wildlife from tracks, antlers, and feathers. Receive food safety tips, tidbits, and prevention of meat science mishaps.
IBM
Interesting, hands-on activities.
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Remote controlled interactive robotic unit and basic computer Working Model 2D dynamic simulation software
St. Mary's University School of Science, Engineering and Technology
Our world today faces major challenges in areas as diverse as energy, healthcare, environmental issues, information security, and health care. The School of Science, Engineering, and Technology at St. Mary’s University offers a wide range of degrees in 6 major STEM disciplines. Are you prepared to become a leader in solving the challenges we face today and the ones that we will have to face in the future? Visit with our faculty leaders and learn more about how you can become a part of our 158-year history of excellence!
Faculty members from St Mary’s University will demonstrate STEM concepts through interactive displays, games, devices, and specimens.
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable will engage Austin Science and Engineering Expo attendees with a science experiment that re-creates the geosynchronous orbit of a satellite around earth. Attendees will also learn about Connect a Million Minds and opportunities to connect to after school activities in science, technology, engineering and math. (STEM)
Gatti-town
GattiTown and The Kent Cummins Magic Camp have joined together bringing magical math and game room fun for schools and organizations. Title 1 funded, TEKS/TAKS aligned curriculum grades 1-8 will bring your students into the game room for FUN with graphing, statistics, geometry culminating with making a personal fraction pizza.
Texas State Technical College System
Engage in hands-on activities using real-world industry equipment as you experience what it might be like to become a skilled technician or to enhance your learning and qualifications for careers in the Chemical, Electronics, Telecommunications and Robotics fields! Texas State Technical College (TSTC) is the state's leading provider of technical training in science and engineering related programs. Join us at the TSTC exhibit to talk with faculty and staff about exciting careers, programs and services!
Giant Printing
Interesting, hands-on activities.
Freescale
Booth 1: The Freescale Plant Services Engineering group presents a dynamic display that demonstrates the concept of hydraulics, valve and pump systems and vortex or whirlpool formation as well as how air pollution scrubbers work to remove odors and smoke particles from an air stream. The display allows a hands-on opportunity to experience cause and effect of manipulating valves and changing flow conditions in a piping network. This display is a great example of the science that supports semiconductor fabricators but any industry that uses chemicals, water, steam and power to manufacturer things.
Booth 2: Join engineers from the Freecale University Programs as they demo a prototype of a simple mobile device using our Freescale Tower System. You’ll also get to check out Smart Car Autonomous Racing Technology from a student built, high-speed scale model car using our Microcontroller, Sensors and Analog technology.
Navy
Interesting, hands-on activities.
Dell
Get an inside view of high-end computer gaming systems!
Gain a better understanding of the different engineering disciplines and how they relate to high-end computer gaming systems. Explore gaming in a way that you may have never experienced before on Dell Alienware computers..and have fun playing a few games while you’re at it. You can also see some of the cool lighting effects and features of top computer gaming systems.
Look under the hood of the computers that power the Internet!
Without the technology in today’s servers, there would be no Internet, Google, texting, Netflix, Ebay, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, online games, or YouTube. Servers power these services and the Internet. In this interactive exhibit, get hands-on experience taking a Dell server apart, putting it back together, and running applications. Learn how servers make the text messages you send and receive happen.
Interactive 3D using Dell Workstations and Digital 3D Projection
Come check out the exciting world of 3D with interactive models, including model cars, human anatomy, and other exciting content! We’ll explain how the technology works and why it’s so great for learning about our world and how to solve complex 3D puzzles.
Texas A&M Engineering
"The Scientific Study of Food." - a hands-on activity with candy and other foods showing the physics and chemical compositions.
Austin Energy Regional Science Festival
Carry out a few hands on high voltage experiments and learn how you can participate in one of the largest regional science fairs in the state of Texas.
National Society of Black Engineers - Austin Alumni Chapter
The Engineering of Bridge Building
This interactive workshop will showcase the importance of engineering in building the bridges that we use daily. Civil engineering is a program that is highly needed in today’s society. The sessions will be 45 minute … starting on the 15 minute mark of each hour.
Girl Scouts of Central Texas
From Powering It Up to Saving the Planet to Robot Design… Come and learn about some of the really cool activities Girl Scouts are offering in their Science Technology Engineering Math Program.
American Academy of Environmental Engineers
Waste water treatment demonstration.
Student Engineers Educating Kids
Come and have fun learning some basic concepts of engineering by building candy-launching catapults out of popsicle sticks with University of Texas engineering students!
Mad Science
Learn about potential and kinetic energy in this active hands-on station. Test your skill and use our catapults to fling creepy crawly spiders and insects into a pit of doom! The sky's the limit as you try to get pop-ups and jumping frogs to reach new heights. You can also learn how potential energy works with our "rattlesnake eggs"!
MoPac Studios
Mopac Studios: A creative design and software solutions company provides various services to customers from different verticals of business. We offer creative graphics design, marketing presentation services, search engine friendly optimization, smart phone solutions and rich media internet applications. Come see our exhibit for latest in the graphic design and presentations technology. Play some fun and interesting mind challenging games and win prizes.
UT Cockrell School of Engineering
Get creative, use your imagination, design and decorate a flying machine to hit a target, carry a passenger, save a life or do tricks in the air. Cockrell School engineering students, student organizations, Women in Engineering Program and Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program staff and students will share the excitement of engineering. We’re engineers because dreams need doing! What starts here, changes the world!
TAME
The TAME TRAILBLAZER is a 40-foot trailer with a variety of hands-on engineering and science exhibits and activities. The Trailblazer is a valuable tool in raising students’ enthusiasm for science and math, and volunteers will be stationed throughout the trailer to provide demonstrations and distribute take-away materials. The 7 featured exhibits are: Magical Magnets, The Need for Speed, The Power of Weather, Eyes and Ears, The Miracle of Medicine, Space Matters, and Energy for Tomorrow. Website: www.tame.org.
The Meat House
Tumble times, vacuum pressure for different meat and marinade combinations.
Girlstart
One day we will have a science activity and the next will be an engineering activity. Exhibits will include Boo Bubbles (dry ice bubbles), bloody hand print experiment, crystal balls, building construction with notecards, etc.
UTSA Physics & Astronomy
We will be conducting a solar energy exhibit where we will be displaying solar panels/cells and having a hands-on solar car race, solar bugs, and solar cookers. We'll also have instructions on how to build a homemade dye-sensitized solar cell. There will also be a presentation on current and future technologies among other things.
Texas A&M Kingsville
Interesting, hands-on activities.
Society of Physics Students Texas A&M Commerce
Our exhibit will be a virtual lab environment with object oriented manipulation using Wii controllers to carry out experiments. We will also display a small table top super conductivity set, presenting magnetic levitation with explanation of the involved processes.
The University of Texas, Jackson School of Geosciences
We will bring core samples from our research lab and display them at the booth. Then we will set up a hands-on learning activity that involves making your own core sample. Each participant will be given a clear cylinder tube and material to fill the tube in a layering system to show the different layers of the Earth. After each participant completes the project they will take home their very own example of a core.
National Instruments
Showcasing both National Instruments and Waterloo Labs, we’ll bring a sampling of our coolest, most eye-catching and interactive demos that are of interest to attendees both young and old. Possible demos include but aren’t limited to: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, iPhone controlled car simulator, an oversized piano (similar to the one in the movie, BIG) and more.
UTSA Interactive Technology Experience Center
The Interactive Technology Experience Center, iTEC, inspiring future engineers in grades k-12 using hands on interactive challenging workshops, summer camps, state wide robotic competitions. Through Inspiration, Teaching, Excitement, and Challenge we create an environment where they can understand how engineering, science, and technology shape our lives and the future of the world.
Vex Robotics Clean Sweep game. 9 x 9 playing field. Will be in conjuction with the UTSA SiVirt Center and UTSA Outreach Exhibiits
Vernier Software & Technology
Come learn to use modern technology to collect real world data and solve science and engineering problems.
Waterloo Labs
Multiple interactive versions of our videos, which can be seen here (www.youtube.com/waterloolabs). Interactive “trade show” style demos have been created for Episodes 2-4
Come and see how Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math play a significant role in the day to day operations of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Fusion Center, Highway Patrol, Aircraft Pilots, TX Rangers, Criminal Investigations, Emergency Management, Communications, Crime Laboratory, Licensing and Regulatory functions and more. DPS offers many exciting career opportunities as big as Texas!
Austin Planetarium
Austin is the largest city in the nation without a planetarium and the Austin Planetarium is here to change that. It is our mission to build a first-class planetarium, science museum, and technology center in Austin for the Central Texas community. For a preview of the planetarium experience, we are bringing our mobile planetarium, the Discovery Dome, to the Science and Engineering Expo.
The Discovery Dome combines an inflatable dome with a digital video projection system to provide you with a truly out-of-this-world experience. Surrounded by 360° of action, you will be immersed in images of the night sky and first-class planetarium shows about astronomy and space travel. Shows will be scheduled 3-4 times per hour.
PASCO
PASCO is a manufacturer of educational science equipment that includes hand-held dataloggers, sensors and probes. Come see our newest datalogger: SPARK science learning center
Texas A&M Geology and Geophysics Grad Student Council
Mystery Minerals
We will have cards with a story of a person who is looking for a specific mineral. It will have certain characteristic, such as its hardness, color, shape, etc. The minerals may include pyrite, muscovite, quartz, calcite, and garnet.
This activity introduces the general characteristic used to identify minerals and helps the children to remember the names of some very awesome minerals.
Minerals at Home
Minerals are used in so many things we use every day. We will have everyday objects such as toothpaste, tablesalt, baby powder, and pencils. We will also have a set of minerals, which in this case would be flourite, halite, talc, and graphite.
Geology of Texas
We will have a map of Texas with different areas highlighted, such as East Texas, the Llano Uplift and the Texas Coastal Plains. The common rocks and minerals at each location will also be shown. This will show the children that you can find cool resources such as petrified wood, granite, and halite/gypsum/anhydrite. This may be a matching game, or the pictures may speak for themselves.
Society of Women Engineers Southwest Texas Section
Come explore a vertical wind tunnel. Booth visitors can fold a paper airplane and see how aerodynamic it is.
The University of Texas at El Paso Physics Department
There will be science manipulatives for pre-k and k-level kids, as well as information about Science Careers at UTEP
Science In The Movies
Our interactive exhibit allows kids to explore the secret science behind movie stunts and special effects. How does Spiderman really fly? How can actors breath in room full of smoke? How can stunt people fall off buildings unharmed? How do people get shot in movies? Steve Wolf and his team of professional stunt and effects / science teachers reveal the secrets that make it all possible, while teaching valuable science and safety lessons.
SHPE UT
We will make silly putty as our interactive hands-on exhibit using Elmer’s glue and liquid starch. We will have the glue and starch mixed in a Ziploc bag along with food coloring, to ‘personalize’ each child’s silly putty, in order to contain the mixture and to keep the mess to a minimum. For the older students, we will use different liquids to show how oil, water, alcohol, and vinegar do not mix due to differences in polarity and densities. We will have each liquid mixed with food coloring as well, so that when the liquids are placed in a beaker or water bottle they create a rainbow.
Central Texas FIRST® LEGO® League
FIRST® LEGO® League is an international tournament that introduces kids 9 – 14 years old to the fun experience of solving real-world problems by applying science, technology, engineering, and math. Come try the robots yourself and meet current FLL teams as they demonstrate the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robots they have designed, built, programmed, tested, and refined over 8 weeks.
Navajo Skin Care
Hózhó, or "Walking in The Beauty Way" is a Navajo tradition in which everything is in balance with all of life. A healthy person lives in balance within themselves and in harmony with their environment. The goal of Navajo Skin Care is to bring a nutrition approach to skin care. Offering a 100% natural line of skin care which is manufactured fresh to order similar to the healthy foods we eat.
Sam Houston State University
Come explore a visible spectrometer that is connected to an NXT robot and controlled by a video game controller. Our point is to discuss the connection of science (the quest for knowledge) and technology (how the knowledge is obtained).
Huston Tillotson Stem Success Program
The Huston-Tillotson University Center for STEM Success is comprised of the Austin Pre-Freshman Engineering Program (AusPrEP) and the Saturday STEM Academy. Our booth will have information about the programs in the Center for STEM Success and will have an interactive robot game for participants to try. Participants will have to maneuver a robot to capture different color balls and place them in specified areas of the game board. Participant will have a specified time limit in which to complete the game.
Prairie View A&M Roy G Perry College of Engineering
Try on a virtual reality helmet and experience travel to different lands.
University of Texas College of Natural Sciences - UTeach
Display board with information, data, photos regarding UTeach Program; college UTeach students available to talk to kids about careers in science and math; interactive demonstrations of "fun science" activities
Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP)
Explore fantastic free resources from organizations such as Engineer Your Life and PBS designed to excite girls about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Learn how the Texas Girls Collaborative Project is connecting organizations across the state to advance STEM informal and formal education so more girls consider STEM careers.
Texas Southern University Physics
Description of our Program + Nuclear Radiation Monitoring Equipment
Manor New Tech
We will bring our robot from the 2010 FRC Breakaway Challenge. Our students will engage people at the festival by answering questions about the robot and by demonstrating how the robot moves and how it kicks toy balls.
University of Texas, Math Department
This booth will host 2 activities. The first is playing the Monty Hall problem. The second will be a soap bubble activity.
Electronics Is Fun
Showing and demonstrating several electronics projects, robots and Open Source hardware, as well as describing how to use them.
Abrakadoodle
Abrakadoodle Art Education takes a hand-on approach to learning, problem-solving, space and design using 2-D and 3-D art lessons for children. We will be conducting a mini project at our booth that helps budding scientists, engineers and more get in touch with their creative thinking side to solve some of the toughest science questions at any age!
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Texas at Brownsville
We will have a number of physics demonstrations: a ring launcher, a magnet/aluminum tube illustrating Faraday's law, a demonstration involving lasers (possibly a Michelson interferometer or music transmitted via laser), demos involving a 'mirage' mirror, and activities with magnets.
US Army
Interesting, hands-on activities.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The mission of the Texas Department of Public Safety is to protect and serve Texas. Come and see how Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math play a significant role in the day to day operations of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Fusion Center, Highway Patrol, Aircraft Pilots, TX Rangers, Criminal Investigations, Emergency Management, Communications, Crime Laboratory, Licensing and Regulatory functions and more. DPS offers many exciting career opportunities as big as Texas!
NASA Johnson Space Center
NASA’s exhibit will feature staff to engage visitors with information on future plans for space exploration and include hands-on items such as a shuttle launch/entry helmet, EVA glove and food trays with sample food and beverage items.
National American University
Interesting, hands-on activities.
CIA
To educate high school, college, and community participants at the Austin Science Festival about career opportunities at the Agency. We hope to inspire the youth to pursue studies in science and engineering and apply them towards a rewarding career with the CIA. The exhibit will provide information, materials, and giveaways on careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) opportunities within the Directorate of Science and Technology.
Texas State University Ingram School of Engineering
Interactive demonstrations involving manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, and electrical engineering.
Discovery Dome from Rice University
The Discovery Dome is a portable immersive digital theater that can be used as a portable planetarium but also to show fulldome movies on a variety of subjects. Our two most recent shows will cycle, once per half hour: Force 5 (English0: Impact Earth (English); Impact Earth (Spanish). Each show is 22 minutes long so the shows will change on the half-hour. Shows are free. Rentals are available through the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
McCoy School of Engineering
Interesting, hands-on activities.
