Discover Engineering Day

**IMPORTANT DETAILS

• FOOD is not provided.  Bring a sack lunch or plan on visiting the Student Union Building, or Broadway vendors for refreshments.
• No registration required to attend DE Day, but some scheduled activities require that you sign up at the activity location.
• With more than 30 activities it’s impossible to do everything.
• Please see the list of activities and plan your day in advance.
• Four ways to participate:  Scheduled Activities (S); Drop-in (D), Open Demonstrations (O); Interactive Science Shows (I)

Scheduled Activities (S):  Scheduled activities have limited capacity and may require sign up to attend for specific times.  Come early to get signed up – sign up sheets at the activity location.   If you sign up, be there 5 minutes in advance to participate.  If you are not there you forfeit your spot.  Scheduled activities include:

• Build and Eat an Edible Aquifer (ET 215)
• Tie Dye Chromatography (MEC 106)
• Jelly Bean Binary (AT 114)
• Star Lab Exploration in a portable planetarium (Kinesiology Bldg. 215)
• ^NEW Wastewater: We Treat it Right!   Learn the process of wastewater treatment through hands-on fun with the Boise WaterShed!  (ET 336)
• ^NEWExtreme Weather Science – NOAA/National Weather Service.  Meteorologists will discuss the science of extreme weather in the context of a “Weather Jeopardy” game.    (ET 313)
• ^NEWCity Planning Magic -Learn how city planners view the world around them through the lens of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Students will participate in an interactive session where they uncover the basic elements of good city planning.  (MEC 307)

Drop-in (D):  These activities run throughout the day, and you can drop in any time.  Supplies are limited, first come first serve.  These include:

• ^NEW Robotics in Healthcare (Norco Building)
• Bristle Bots (AT 102)
• ^NEW NASA Heat Shield (AT) 100
• ^NEW Design Build with Straws (AT113)
• NEW Force and Motion (ET 314)
• Fun with Catapults (MEC 114)
• Alternative Energy
• West Point Bridge Design (MEC 103)
• Jenga Jedi  (AT 110)

Open Demonstrations (O):  These demonstrations are great for when you are waiting for a scheduled activity.  These are mostly located in the Kinesiology Building, and the Civil Engineering Building.  You will also find several in the ET and MEC lobbys, and open research laboratories appropriate for high school students and adults.

• Snow Plow Simulator
• ^NEW Making Waves with LIGO (EXPO)
• Construction Management  Demonstration (EXPO)
• Radio Demonstration (EXPO)
• Seatbelt Demonstration (EXPO)
• ^NEW Driving Simulator (EXPO)
• 15,000 Volt Demonstration (EXPO)
• What’s a Watt (EXPO)
• Robots in Action (EXPO)
• Launching Catapults (EXPO)
• Play with Keva Blocks and Uberstix (ET 2^nd and 3^rd floor lobby)
• Balloon model of a C nanotube (ET Lobby)
• Force and Motion (ET 314)
• Earthquake Table and Ride a Hovercraft (AT 119)
• Ride a Segway (MEC 206)
• TEM – Transmission Electron Microscope (MEC 113)
• Shape Memory Alloy Demonstration (CE )
•  Make a Bio Polymer (CE)
• Wind Tunnel and Aerodesign (CE)
• Mini-Baja (CE)