Techno Science Supersite: Fairs & Conferences

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Fairs & Conferences: General, Science, & Technology

General

Expanding Your World

Attention eighth graders in southern Oregon. Get a head start on your future by finding out about careers in science, engineering, & technology in this great conference.

Ages: 8th Grade
Contact: Email Earlee Kerekes-Mishra or call: 541-885-1668

TWIST - Teen Women In Science and Technology

OIT has planned an exciting week long get-a-way for teen women to explore science and technology and college life. This year's trip will be to Crater Lake. TWIST is a wonderful program for any young woman, but it is especially beneficial to young women who have an interest or aptitude for math. Tuition cost - $500. Tuition assistance opportunities are available (based on financial need).

Ages: 9th - 12th Grade
Contact: Email Wendy Powless or call: 541-885-1278

Science

OMSI Science Festivals

Why go to a science fair when you can bring one to your school or community. OMSI the organization that practically invented science fun, has done it again by taking their science experiments on the road and to your community. They will bring a *blueback submarine-load of science fun like live animals, gadgets, explosions (they call it flaming phenomenon), and much more. If astronomy is more your cup of tea, then I suggest you reserve the portable planetarium (don't ask me how they fit all those stars inside).

*Note: They don't actually load up the blueback with science supplies. I meant that as a figure of speech.

Ages: All
Contact: Email fairs@omsi.edu or call: (888) 774-6674

Oregon Junior Academy of Science

Take your research to the next level by presenting it in front of Oregon scientists, teachers, friends, family, and other students with similar projects. You'll have 10-12 minutes to present your research findings (often using PowerPoint). Five minutes are reserved for the end of your presentation to respond to questions, and if you do well enough you may be selected to present your research at either the American Junior Academy of Science national meeting or the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

Ages: 9th - 12th Grade
Contact: Email Adele Schepige or call: (503) 838-8485

Technology

NET Month

Keep on the lookout at your school next February for NET Month (National Engineers and Technicians Month). Intel volunteers will come to classrooms all over the nation to make fun and fascinating demonstrations showing how math, science, and engineering play an important role in everything around us. Recruit volunteers for your school, and they will earn money for your school as well.

Ages: 4th - 12th Grade
Contact: Janet Rash

Upcoming Events

Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures : What Scientists Know and How They Know It Thursday, May 1st

Are scientific theories true because they correspond to reality? How can we know that they do, given that we have no access to reality except through experience, which scientists themselves tell us is profoundly different from the the way things "really" are?

If you can't get enough of science, and you want to be up on the latest scientific theories and debates, then you should check out the Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series.

OGPC: Oregon Game Project Challenge 1 May 17, 2008

Join your high school buddies and design a game for Oregon's first annual high school game programming competition. Teams of 3 to 7 students may participate by designing a game based on this year's theme of the science behind energy issues. Teams must design programs using Game Maker a free, PC-based game development tool.

OMSI Brainstorm Lecture Series: Unearthing China's Dragons – Tuesday, May 20

From Liaoning to Gansu, new dinosaur discoveries are changing the face of paleontology. We will look at some of these discoveries, where they were made, and why dinosaurs half-way around the world are important to the study of dinosaurs in North America.

Judy Sanders has worked in paleontology for 14 years as a fossil excavator in the western United States, Canada, and China, and currently works as a fossil preparator at the Utah Geological Survey under Dr. James Kirkland.

Held once a month in the OMSI Auditorium, OMSI's newest adult discussion series include presentations by experts followed by ample time for Q&A with the speakers and discussion with other participants.