The Wellesley STEM Expo will be taking place on April 8 at Wellesley High School, and promises to bring science, technology, engineering and math to life.
Among the exhibits and their presenters these year are:
Robot Zoo
Take Control of NASA’s Valkyrie Humanoid Robot (UMass Lowell); Robots that Walk and Run (Boston Dynamics); Tiny Robots, Squishy Robots, and More! (Harvard Microrobotics Lab); Cool and Practical Robots (iRobot); Lend us a Hand, Test our Robotic Grippers! (RightHand Robotics); Experience Your Own Robot Avatar (Vecna); StandX Robotic Chair (Robilis); BotBall Team at Work (WHS Robotics Club); Snapping Snake, Bottle-Flipping & Other Robots (WMS Robotics); FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Team (A Few Loose Screws); Wellesley First Lego League Teams in Action); Explore the Formula SAE Electric Vehicle (Olin Electric Motorsports); The Mystery Machine: An Autonomous Robotic Racer (Olin College of Engineering); Mass State Police Bomb Squad); Pet Robotic Animals, Test Video Games (Empow Studios); Make with Montessori (The Riverbend School); Meet the Robots: Lava & Sky (Wellesley Free Library)
Makerspace: Design, Innovate and Create
Don’t Feed the Bears: Design and Construct the Finish to a 12 ft Ski Jump –Explo); Engineera Balloon Powered Vehicle (Tenacre Country Day School); Code a Dance Party Lamp (Get Real Studio); Watch 3D Printers in Action (Wellesley Education Foundation); Fun with 3D Printing and 3D Scanning! (Toysinbox 3D Printing); Record Breaking Ball Machine, Laser Engraver, Scratch Built Computer, Revolutionary Highway Improvement and More! (WHS STEM Club); Gum Drop Towers: How High Can You Go? (Fiske Elementary); Balsa Bridges and High Speed Videos (WHS); Gizmo Playground (WMS); The Missing TE in STEM: Fun with Engineering! Hands on Engineering Education for everyone (Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach); Innovation Lab - Fay School); Make Videos on a Green Screen (WHS Broadcasting Studio); Solarplate Printmaking (WHS Art Department); Art & Science of Typography - Gigue); NASA Photo Kiosk
Food: Down to a Science
Science is - 321 Degrees Cool! (Subzero Ice Cream & Yogurt); Use Science and Math to Create Culinary Masterpieces (Little Chefs); WMS Design/Tech Challenge: Growing Hydroponically (WMS)
Living Things: Birds, Trees and Honey Bees
The Chicken: Our Friend and Food (Natick Community Organic Farm); Animal Surgery (Hancock Animal Hospital, LLC); Environmental Education and STEM (Mass Audubon/Drumlin Farm); Honey DNA and Urban Beekeeping (The Best Bees Company); A Compost Odyssey (Land’s Sake Farm); Meet the Succulents (Wellesley College Botanic Gardens); The Wild World of Plants (Mass Hort); Let’s Talk About Trees (NRC/WHS Evolutions Program); The Science of Plant Pollination (Bates Elementary)
Our Planet and Beyond
Engineering & Erosion: Become a Coastal Engineer! (New England Aquarium); Build Your Own River (Wellesley College); Learn How You Can Launch An Experiment to the International Space Station (Genes in Space); Space Exploration (Clay Observatory); Clean Water in Your Cup! (Wellesley Natural Resources Commission); Oceanography Lab (Hardy Elementary School); Man
in the Moon?! (WMS Sixth Grade Science); Power to Choose Campaign (WHS); Aquaponics: Another Fish Story (WHS Evolutions Program); Wellesley Middle School Solar Panels (WHS Evolutions Solar Team); Sustainability Challenge Entries (Sustainable Wellesley)
Coding and Technology
Fun with Metlab! (MathWorks); Automatic Handwritten Equation Recognition (Brandeis University and Schofield Elementary); Wellesley CreateAthon (WHS Computer Science Club); Minecraft in Education (Saint John School)
Experimenting with Chemistry and Physics
Spin Doctor (Thermo Fisher Scientific); Augmented Reality Sandbox (Cambridge Science Festival & Science on the Street); Hands-On Fun (The Discovery Museums); Watt is Going on?? (MassBay Community College); How do Circuits Work? Learn with littleBits! (Wellesley Robogals); Electrons: The Phantoms of Electricity (Crosspoint Engineering); Absorb, Collapse Relax (Exponent Consulting); The Aerodynamics of Kites in Flight (KitingUSA.com); Optics is Everyday Life (NES/ OSA); STEM Fun with BALANCE! (STEM Beginnings); Is it Magic? Nope Just Chemistry! (WMS); Science of Figure Skating (Upham Elementary); The Science of Bottle Flipping (Hunnewell Elementary); Hovercrafts and more! (WMS Science Olympiad)
Science of Being Human
Wellesley College Neuroscience Brain Booth); Think Like a Scientist: MEDscience Program (Harvard Medical School); Saving Lives with Simulation (Newton-Wellesley Hospital); Injury Risk Screening (Train Boston); Join our “Baby & Child Scientists” (Boston Children’s Hospital); Understanding Diabetes & Obesity Using Mice (University of Massachusetts Medical School); Assemble a Gene (WHS)
Fantastic Mathematics
MathMovesU (Raytheon Company); Math Detectives: Who’s Up for the Challenge? (Wellesley College); Make your own Secret Code (Olin College of Engineering); An MIT Cryptography Lesson adopted for students (Foundation Ceibal); Math Spring, an Intelligent Tutoring System (WPI); Math Casino (RSM Wellesley); Jelly Bean Math: Delicious Problem Solving (Sprague Elementary)
A series of scheduled events will also punctuate the day with special speakers and presentations, including a keynote address by Dr. Edmund Bertschinger, MIT Professor of Physics. Among those events:
10:30 a.m.
Explore the World of Coding with jrCode
Learn to Code through Game Design with Microsoft - Natick
The Nature of You: Capture Your DNA in a Necklace with the Science Club for Girls
Code Your Own Game! with Coding for Kids
WEF Planetarium Show
11:30 a.m.
Explore the World of Coding with jrCode
Learn to Code through Game Design with Microsoft - Natick
The Nature of You: Capture Your DNA in a Necklace with the Science Club for Girls
Code Your Own Game! with Coding for Kids
Backyard Alchemy: The Merits of Composting with BootStrap Composting
WEF Planetarium Show
1 p.m.
Genes in Space (Design and Launch your DNA Experiment in Space. Design a real experiment that could be launched to the International Space Station (www.genesinspace.org)
Watch WMS Science Olympiad Team Launch Bottle Rockets
Explore the World of Coding with jrCode
Learn to Code through Game Design with Microsoft - Natick
The Nature of You: Capture Your DNA in a Necklace with the Science Club for Girls
Code Your Own Game! with Coding for Kids
WEF Planetarium Show
2 p.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Edmund Bertschinger, MIT Professor of Physics
Rocking Spacetime: The Discovery Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes
An astrophysicist and cosmologist, Dr. Bertschinger explores cosmology, gravitation, and dark matter. He leads a research program studying galaxy formation, the physics of gravitation, and black holes. His program also studies the physics of dark matter in the early universe and the effects of the big bang on the formation of cosmic structure.
Sustainability Challenge and CreateAthon winners will be announced prior to the keynote address.
3 p.m.
STEM Professional Panel for High Schoolers
College and Career Readiness Planning Come unravel the mysteries of choosing a 21st century path to college and beyond. Our panelists are leaders in medicine, non- profit management, engineering, finance, and software. They are here to help you be clearer and more confident on your road ahead. Invite a parent or a friend to join you.
( - Indicates WEF STEM grants in action)
The community is welcomed to this free, fun event to explore the frontiers of science, technology, engineering and math.
For further information, visit www.wellesleyeducationfoundation.org.
