Lockheed Martin brings US Speedskaters to the USA Science & Engineering Festival

Get Ready as Festival Expo 2012 Takes You Deeper Inside the Frontiers of Space Exploration!

Building upon thehigh level of Space Exploration excitement we brought you in 2010, the 2012 Festival promises to take you deeper into this frontier, giving you fascinating insight not only into aerospace innovations of the future, but introducing you to space explorers and others who are helping to make it all happen!

Here’s a look at the eye-opening exhibits and presentations in aerospace technology that you can expect at Festival Expo 2012:

• Discover it All With This Space Exploration Giant! As the founding and host sponsor for the USA Science Engineering Festival, Lockheed Martin – renowned for its pivotal role in aerospace technology and other innovations – is again ready to  engage and inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists, and space explorers through a host of interactive exhibits and presentations that are bound to wow you!

• Meet the Man Behind Space X and Other Innovations! He's best known for creating SpaceX  -- producer of such premiere space launch vehicles as the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets! Don't miss the opportunity to meet and hear Elon Musk. This dynamic and innovative engineer and serial entrepreneur is also co-founder of PayPal (the world's largest internet payment system), and inventor of what is arguably the first viable production electric car of the modern era (the Telsa Roadster)!

• Explore Space on a Broad Spectrum – Courtesy of NASA! Come and discover with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

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  The USA Science Engineering Festival is a fantastic opportunity to get your students excited about science in the world around them.

  This will be the largest celebration of science and engineering in the United States and will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance for your students to see how science is involved in every aspect of their lives. If you plan one field trip this year, this is the one you can't miss!

  Help plan your day at the Expo by Downloading the printable Expo Map.

  
  Here are several ways you can get your students involved and ready for the Expo:
  
  

  1-Bring Your Students to Sneak Peek Friday on April 27, 2012

  The Festival Finale Expo will kick off with a special invitation-only "Sneak Peek Friday" on April 27 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center! Teachers and students from area and underserved schools, homeschoolers, military families, House and Senate members and their staffers, White House officials, key agency representatives are invited to tour the EXPO exhibits on "Sneak Peek Friday" before it opens to the general public on Saturday and Sunday. Click here to find out more.

  2-Bring a group of students to the Expo and Book Fair on April 28 29, 2012

  New to the Expo this year is the Career Pavilion for high-school students and the Book Fair.
  View Career Pavilion Exihbits
  Learn about the Book Fair here.
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  3-Thematic Tracks

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  2nd USA Science Engineering Festival Newsletter Archives

  • SPECIAL EDITION April 25, 2012 3 Days to the Woodstock of Science!
  • Newsletter No. 24 April 23, 2012 This coming weekend be sure to join us for the "Largest Celebration of Science Engineering" in Washington, DC!  Don't miss presentations by: Bill Nye the Science Guy; Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, hosts of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters; real-life neuroscientist Mayim Bialik from the hit TV comedy The Big Bang Theory; and Jeff Lieberman, host of TV's Time Warp series.
  • SPECIAL EDITION April 19, 2012 9 Days to the Woodstock of Science!
  • Newsletter No. 23 April 17, 2012 Get connected to the Festival by downloading our new Festival App or Meet Representatives from AWIS (The Association for Women in Science) These scientists will give insight into the many options available today for females in such fields!
  • Newsletter No. 22 April 9, 2012 Let us know that you are planning to attend the Expo, and you will automatically be signed up for a chance to meet Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of the Mythbusters OR Mayim Bialik of The Big Bang Theory
  • Newsletter No. 21 March 26, 2012 Just 1 Month Until the Largest Celebration of Science Engineering!
    
  • Newsletter No. 20, March 6, 2012
    Songwriting Contest Winners, Scientific American is back, AAAS Perfect Partner
  • Newsletter No. 19, February 13, 2012
    Countdown to the Festival, Pop Mechanics

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    Grand Challenges Tracks

    The Expo will be organized into thematic ”Tracks” following the National Academies ”Grand Challenges”.

    They are:

    • Harnessing the Sun's Energy
    • Preventing Global Warming
    • Making Agriculture More "Green"
    • Providing Access to Clean Water
    • Modernizing Our Urban World
    • Streamlining Health Information
    • Advancing Medicine and Health
    • Unraveling How the Brain Works
    • Keeping Us Safe
    • Securing Cyberspace
    • Enhancing Virtual Reality
    • Advancing Personalized Learning
    • Creating the Tools of Scientific Discovery

    In honor of the USA Science and Engineering Festival Grand Challenges for Engineering tracks, the NAE has partnered with students at the University of Texas at El Paso to develop a Grand Challenges Passport mobile application. Kids (actually, anyone!) can download the NAE Grand Challenges Passport mobile app on their iPhone/iTouch or Android device for free and collect digital stamps throughout the Festival by scanning QR codes.  After you have completed at least 10 exhibits from different Grand Challenges tracks and scanned the QR codes you are eligible to be entered into a prize drawing.  Alternatively, participants may use the festival map to collect stickers.

    Download to your mobile device now!
    Android
    Apple

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