This past Monday I was pleased to host 300 or so grade 7 and 8 students at the Waterloo on behalf of NEM Ontario and Shad Valley. The event in question, called “Design Your Future” was a day filled with science and engineering demos, exhibits and speakers intended to get kids excited about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers.
By all accounts it was a great success and I’m so pleased that we were able to pull it off so successfully. Here are a few photos I took of the day:
- Kevin Kyeong of UW's Midnight Sun kicked off the day…
- Kareem Shehata from Aeryon
- Downstairs, we had… flying robots!
- Christie's Vein Viewer in action. Seriously cool; google it.
- Google's demonstration
- Lisa, Leila and Brendan from UW's EngSoc
- Volunteer Sharon Bennett
- Katie and Melissa from Waterloo Unlimited
- Mary I from Shad
- UW Midnight Sun team
- James and Darcy from Kwartzlab
- Kwartzlab's 3D printer
- 3D Printer in action
- Janet, Maria and Val, our awesome volunteers
- Catherine Holloway from IQC
- Martin! (IQC)
- Caity Dyck from ESQ, and entertainer extraordinaire!
- "Waterloogooglers" teaching about binary numbers
- Martin LaForest from IQC
- Martin LaForest's talk (IQC)
- Katie Cerar of Enflick, one of our speakers
- Mary Wells from UW
- It's important to send the right messages about who engineers are and what they do.
- I was pleased to see that, like me, Mary Wells is a lefty and wears her iron ring on the same finger I do!
- The messages we send around engineering are really important. This is one.
- One of the ways in which engineers help people
- Engineers design tech to help people
- Examples of the tech engineers design
- Great "mind-map" created by a student
- Mary D, Barry, Mary H from Shad
My thanks to everyone who helped out with the day; we couldn’t have done it without you.
