Advanced Functional Fabrics of America AFFOA is one of 17 Manufacturing USA Innovation Institutes. We aim to rekindle the domestic textiles industry by leading a nation-wide enterprise for advanced fiber and fabric technology. Swing by our table for a demonstration of wearable technologies, access to our SeamLS immersive learning tool, and entry to win a free backpack!
Bala Consulting Engineers Students will learn about pressure drop by blowing bubbles through drinking straws of varying length. How does this relate to MEP/FP Engineering? As HVAC engineers, we design systems to minimize pressure drop and energy!
Beaver Works at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Our Tiny Turbine demo gives students a hands-on opportunity to explore the principles of renewable energy and mechanical engineering by building and testing miniature wind turbines. This engaging activity introduces key STEM concepts such as energy conversion, aerodynamics, and power generation in a fun, interactive format.
Boston College DevTech Come learn ScratchJr, is a free programming language for children ages 5-7. ScratchJr utilizes block programming to allow children to create their own interactive stories and games.
Boston College Gaudette Lab (Tissue Engineering/Cellular Agriculture)
Boston College Lynch School of Education The Lab2Classroom table will highlight the intersection of science, engineering, and computational thinking through measuring the activity in their muscles and nerves and exploring how they can model and design bionic arms!
Boston Dynamics Take a walk with Spot, Boston Dynamics’ robot dog!
Boston Museum of Science (10AM-1PM) Unleash your science and engineering superpowers with exciting activities from the Museum of Science. Use your engineering skills to protect a snowboarder from a cascading mountain avalanche, explore the wonders of the human body, levitate objects using the force of magnetism, solve mind-bending puzzles, and more!
Boston University Department of Mechanical Engineering (10AM-1PM) Participate in hands-on demos and investigations drawn from BU Mechanical Engineering’s lab curriculum.
Boston Society of Civil Engineers Learn about different types of bridges
Brandeis MakerLab Try out the drone simulators and laser etcher!
Christa McAuliffe Center for Integrated Science Measure the temperature of different roofs to determine which is best for reducing the urban heat island effect
Climable Participate in a windmill building activity.
CMTA Ever wonder who determines the lighting fixture types and locations in your classroom, gym, cafeteria, and hallways? Learn from CMTA (a building system design firm) all about how an electrical engineer lays out lighting for a school building. We will have sample floor plans printed out for students to try it out for themselves! Students will place lights in a ceiling grid, making sure to have adequate spacing, symmetry, lighting levels, and emergency lighting for when the building loses power!
Dassault Systemes Come try out a demo of our SolidWorks app for Kids K-12.
Energy Teachers Educational materials for teachers.
Haley & Aldrich Learn more about civil/environmental engineering and the geosciences. As engineers and scientists, H&A helps collect data from the world we live, to help hold up buildings and structures, clean contaminated water, and better understand our impact to the environment. We will have hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and take-home items for all ages.
Lasell University Take home an experiment on growing bacteria!
Lemelson MIT Discover your inner inventor! Join Lemelson-MIT for a hands-on invention adventure using SCAMPER. SCAMPER is a fun, fast-thinking tool that helps inventors of all ages transform everyday objects into bold new ideas.Can you Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, or Rearrange to make something better? You’ll get to brainstorm, sketch, and share your reimagined inventions—just like real inventors do!
Mass Bay Community College Isolate Your Own DNA. Extract and visualize DNA from human saliva.
Mass Life Sciences Center Try your hand at pipetting art and tie-dye!
MathWorks Robotic arm: Come watch our Robotic arm in action as it picks up objects and sorts them into different buckets—all by itself, autonomously! See how programming helps engineers tackle and solve real-world problems with MATLAB!
Flight simulator: Take to the skies with our interactive flight simulator! Use a controller to pilot a virtual airplane right from a laptop. Experience the thrill of flying and learn how real pilots navigate and control their aircraft.
Merrimack College Explore buoyancy and help bees! Compete to build a boat to carry the most weight and then transform your boat into a seed spaceship to take home.
National Energy Education Development Get blown away with our wind weightlifter challenge to see if your design can lift the most weights and come learn about radiant energy while making a UV beaded solar chameleon!
Nokia At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. Come and see how we are enabling communications in space, and virtually try on a space suit through our interactive augmented reality application. Also, get up close with the cables working at the speed of light to keep the internet running that are normally buried deep beneath our feet!
Nova Biomedical Nova Biomedical is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, and sells blood testing analyzers and diagnostic products. Nova Biomedical focuses on providing advanced technology for point-of-care and critical care testing, as well as instruments for cell culture and biotechnology.
SharkNinja SharkNinja will unveil the Ninja Slushi, sharing the fascinating product development journey behind its creation. Attendees will get hands-on experience with the unit’s components, sample delicious slushis, and contribute innovative ideas for enhancing the slushi or dreaming up our next big frozen treat!
Simpson, Gumpertz, & Hager Learn from SGH about how to make buildings safe, sustainable and strong. We have hands on activities, worksheets, material samples and draw for a door prize of some books to learn more about the built environment
Spark Photonics Discover how light powers modern technology! Stop by the Spark Photonics Foundation table to guide light through a microchip maze, explore real microchips under a microscope, and see how fiber optics send information at lightning speed!
TERC Participants will be able to explore a circuit activity from the NeuroVivid can. They can try out a simple BCI device that allows them to use their concentration to levitate a ball and light up an LED.
The Pipetting Pigeon The Pipetting Pigeon will be steampunked and ready to chat with biology teachers about how to get free lab consumables.
ThermoFisher Spell your name in DNA!
Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Participate in a hands-on activity where you’ll use Smart Motors—a trainable robotics kit developed at the Tufts CEEO—and LEGO Education SPIKE Prime to build fun, interactive contraptions.
Waltham Public Schools Robotics Drive a robot on our challenge course!
Wentworth Institute of Technology We will be showcasing an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) that has been designed, manufactured, and programmed by students at Wentworth. We will also have a poster that describes the mission and challenges the ROV is designed to address.
WGBH Come try hands-on, fun-packed STEM activities based on PBS KIDS shows with GBH Education! Young learners can try a computation thinking activity from the free Work It Out Wombats! Family App, and families can try an engineering challenge from Design Squad!
