| Organization: |
Allegheny County Health Department (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Featuring human and environmental issues such as HIV/AIDS, injury prevention, food safety, air quality, pollution prevention and recycling.
For more information about the programs and what is going on in your area visit:
Allegheny County Health Department
Anchors: S8.A.1.2; S8.A.1.2.2; S8.A.1.3.4
Standards: 3.2.7 (D); 3.6.7 (A); 3.7.7 (A, B)
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
No dates yet
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| Organization: |
Allegheny County Health Department (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Featuring human and environmental issues such as HIV/AIDS, injury prevention, food safety, air quality, pollution prevention and recycling.
For more information about the programs and what is going on in your area visit:
Allegheny County Health Department
Anchors:
S8.A.1.2; S8.A.1.2.2; S8.A.1.3.4
Standards: 3.2.7 (D); 3.6.7 (A); 3.7.7 (A, B)
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
No dates yet
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| Organization: |
Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Learn about the significance of biofilms! See animations and 3-D images; Dark box containing bioluminescent bacteria in a biofilm; Spot the biofilm of bacteria using a microscope.
Learn more about
ASRI.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
No dates yet
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| Organization: |
Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Learn about the significance of biofilms! See animations and 3-D images; Dark box containing bioluminescent bacteria in a biofilm; Spot the biofilm of bacteria using a microscope.
Learn more about
ASRI. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
No dates yet
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| Organization: |
Bayer MaterialScience (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Experience the wide world of sports made possible by innovative and versatile materials from Bayer MaterialScience. Explore the nature of materials that add strength, comfort, durability and style to equipment for a wide variety of sports, including soccer, hockey, golf, baseball, skiing, football, sledding, bicycling, inline skating, kayaking and many more.
Learn how a baseball curves by investigating the effects of the Bernoulli principle. Observed by 18th-century Swiss scientist and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli, this principle illustrates how speed and pressure factor into the flight path of a 90 mph curve ball.
Bayer is also a proud sponsor of the C.A.U.S.E. Challenge™ High School Film Festival, presented by Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Science Center SciTech Initiative and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The C.A.U.S.E. awards ceremony will take place at the Harris Theater. Click for
more information.
Anchors: S11.A.1.1.2; S11.C.1.1.2; S11.C.2.1
Standards: 3.4.10.C, 3.4.12.C
Learn more about
Bayer.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Bayer MaterialScience (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Experience the wide world of sports made possible by innovative and versatile materials from Bayer MaterialScience. Explore the nature of materials that add strength, comfort, durability and style to equipment for a wide variety of sports, including soccer, hockey, golf, baseball, skiing, football, sledding, bicycling, inline skating, kayaking and many more.
Learn how a baseball curves by investigating the effects of the Bernoulli principle. Observed by 18th-century Swiss scientist and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli, this principle illustrates how speed and pressure factor into the flight path of a 90 mph curve ball.
Bayer is also a proud sponsor of the C.A.U.S.E. Challenge™ High School Film Festival, presented by Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Science Center SciTech Initiative and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The C.A.U.S.E. awards ceremony will take place at the Harris Theater. Click for
more information.
Anchors: S8.C.1.1, S8.C.3.1
STANDARDS: 3.4.7.C
Learn more about
Bayer.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Carnegie Mellon University CoDe Lab (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Our robotic building blocks (roBlocks) literally have a mind of their own. You can play with them and not even realize that you are learning a lot! See demonstrations of interesting robotic creations and then make these same creations or create your own (i.e. undirected play!). You can create simple robots that move, beep and flash lights according to environmental conditions without any programming or electronics skills.
Anchors: S11.A.3.1
Standards: 3.7.10.B, 3.7.12.B
Learn more about
CoDe Lab.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
No dates yet
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| Organization: |
Duquesne University, Bayer School of Environmental Sciences (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Wed.: Physics
The physics underpinning some electronic technologies is laid bare as we piece toghether common household items to make working devices that are found all around us. Plus, is it art or is it science?
Every eerie-looking frame in our movies of feeding black holes is the result of brain and computing power combined.
Thurs.: Biological & Environmental Science
Learn more about
Duquesne University | Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
FedEx Ground (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Learn all about the high tech methods Fed Ex
Ground uses to sort, transport, and track your shipments.
Anchors: S11.A.3.1
Standards: 3.1.10.A, 3.1.12.A
Learn more about
FedEx Ground
Anchors: S8.A.1.2; S8.A.1.2.4
Standards: 3.1.7 (A, B); 3.7.7 (A); 3.8.7 (A)
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
FedEx Ground (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Learn all about the high tech methods Fed Ex
Ground uses to sort, transport, and track your shipments.
Anchors: S8.A.3.1.5
Standards: 3.1.7.A
Learn more about
FedEx Ground
Anchors: S8.A.1.2; S8.A.1.2.4
Standards: 3.1.7 (A, B); 3.7.7 (A); 3.8.7 (A)
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
FirstEnergy (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
An overview of electricity generation using Nuclear energy (fission). Students can use plant testing equipment such as infrared cameras, Helium leak detectors, ultra sound guns, and radiation detectors. FirstEnergy employees will discuss the science behind the equipment and what the equipment is used for in the plant. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
FirstEnergy (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
An overview of electricity generation using Nuclear energy (fission). Students can use plant testing equipment such as infrared cameras, Helium leak detectors, ultra sound guns, and radiation detectors. FirstEnergy employees will discuss the science behind the equipment and what the equipment is used for in the plant. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Participants include:
City of Pittsburgh
DCNR
DEP - Department of Environmental Protection
Allegheny County GIS |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Participants include:
City of Pittsburgh
DCNR
DEP - Department of Environmental Protection
Allegheny County GIS |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Girls, Math & Science Partnership (GMSP) (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Join the Girls, Math & Science Partnership as we learn about the chemistry behind makeup and make our own all-natural lipgloss! GMSP's mission is to engage, educate, and embrace girls as architects of change. Working with girls age 11 - 17 and their parents, teachers, and mentors, we draw organizations, stakeholders, and communities together in an effort to ensure that girls succeed in math and science. Online at BrainCake.org.
Learn more about
GMSP.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Girls, Math & Science Patrnership (GMSP) (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Join the Girls, Math & Science Partnership as we learn about the chemistry behind makeup and make our own all-natural lipgloss! GMSP's mission is to engage, educate, and embrace girls as architects of change. Working with girls age 11 - 17 and their parents, teachers, and mentors, we draw organizations, stakeholders, and communities together in an effort to ensure that girls succeed in math and science. Online at BrainCake.org.
Learn more about
GMSP.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Health Career Fair (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Career Fair will feature health professionals conducting activities and speaking with students and teachers about their jobs, education and opportunities for advancement. The fairs will focus on cutting-edge health topics, as well as a broad spectrum of health-related careers.
Highlight: Students can interact with SimMan, a simulated human body that is used to train medical students.
Presented by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation
Anchors: S8.A.1 1; S8.A.1.2; S8.A.2.1.4; S8.A.2.2; S8.A.3.1
Standards: 3.1.7.A, 3.2.7.A, 3.2.7.B, 3.2.7.C, 3.8.7.A, 3.8.7.B
Health Career Fair Participants:
Organic Personal Chef Service
Aegis Therapies
Allegheny Count Sheriff (drunk goggles)
American Respiratory Alliance
Center for Hearing and Deaf Services
Children's Hospital
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
UPMC Prehosptial Care
UPMC Respirtatory Care, Presbyterian
UPMC Soutside
The Western Pennsylvannia Hosptial
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Health Career Fair (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Career Fair will feature health professionals conducting activities and speaking with students and teachers about their jobs, education and opportunities for advancement. The fairs will focus on cutting-edge health topics, as well as a broad spectrum of health-related careers.
Highlight: Students can interact with SimMan, a simulated human body that is used to train medical students.
Presented by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation
Anchors: S11.A.1 1; S11.A.1.1.2; S11.A.1.3.1; S11.A.2.1; S11.A.2.2; S11.A.3.2; S11.B.1.1
Standards: 3.1.10.A, 3.2.10.A, 3.2.10.B, 3.2.10.C, 3.1.12.A, 3.2.12.A, 3.2.12.B, 3.2.12.C, 3.3.10.A, 3.3.12.A
Health Career Fair Participants:
Organic Personal Chef Service
American Respiratory Alliance
Center for Hearing and Deaf Services
Children's Hospital
Peabody High School Health Tech
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
UPMC Prehosptial Care
UPMC Respirtatory Care, Presbyterian
UPMC Soutside
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
iD Tech Camp (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Exhibit includes playable demos of previous students' projects.
At iD Tech camp campers can design a 2D or 3D video game; build a website in Flash®; program a robot; and edit their own videos.
Learn more about
iD Tech Camp.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
iD Tech Camp (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Exhibit includes playable demos of previous students' projects.
At iD Tech camp campers can design a 2D or 3D video game; build a website in Flash®; program a robot; and edit their own videos.
Learn more about
iD Tech Camp.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Michael Baker Corporation (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Michael Baker is one of the country's leading engineering and energy management firms. Visit their exhibit to learn more about this regional company and to experience some of their interesting hands-on activities.
Learn more about
Michael Baker Corporation.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Michael Baker Corporation (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Michael Baker is one of the country's leading engineering and energy management firms. Visit their exhibit to learn more about this regional company and to experience some of their interesting hands-on activities.
Learn more about
Michael Baker Corporation.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
PCTV (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Want to know what it feels like to be on TV? Community media, like PCTV, is in the hands of everyday people. This exhibit features a self-controlled TV “soapbox” booth. The booth will contain two cameras with a switcher, so a visitor can decide which angle they want – all while having two minutes to rant about a local topic. Topics can range anywhere from current news to your favorite science topics.
Also, PCTV will ask a different question each day and compile the answers for a brief segment to be aired later on PCTV. There will be a monitor so people outside of the booth can watch.
Anchors: S8.A.2.2
Standards: 3.3.7.A, 3.7.7.B, 3.1.7.D
Learn more about
PCTV.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
PCTV (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Want to know what it feels like to be on TV? Community media, like PCTV, is in the hands of everyday people. This exhibit features a self-controlled TV “soapbox” booth. The booth will contain two cameras with a switcher, so a visitor can decide which angle they want – all while having two minutes to rant about a local topic. Topics can range anywhere from current news to your favorite science topics.
Also, PCTV will ask a different question each day and compile the answers for a brief segment to be aired later on PCTV. There will be a monitor so people outside of the booth can watch.
Anchors: S8.A.2.2
Standards: 3.3.7.A, 3.7.7.B, 3.1.7.D
Learn more about
PCTV. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
PennState Electro-Optics Center (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Come try out IR (Infrared) and night vision technology! Other simple yet fun applications of electro-optics technology including laser hair thickness measurement and laser x-y pattern generator – as you clap your hands you create new images.
Anchors: S11.A.2.2; S11.A.2.2
Standards: 3.2.10.C, 3.7.10.B, 3.2.12.C, 3.7.12.B
Learn more about
Penn State Electro-Optics Center
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
PennState Electro-Optics Center (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Come try out IR (Infrared) and night vision technology! Other simple yet fun applications of electro-optics technology including laser hair thickness measurement and laser x-y pattern generator – as you clap your hands you create new images.
Anchors: S8.A.1.2; S8.A.2.2
Standards: 3.2.7.C, 3.7.7.B
Learn more about
Penn State Electro-Optics Center
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Visit our booth to see how you can use a Nintendo WiiMote to manipulate molecules, unfold proteins, go bowling with Buckyballs, and more. Get hooked on realistic biomedical simulations from a virtual lab and interact with the ocean currents that carried the Titanic on its fateful trip. Plus: can you do calculations faster than a computer in our HPC Grand Challenge?
Learn more about PSC. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Visit our booth to see how you can use a Nintendo WiiMote to manipulate molecules, unfold proteins, go bowling with Buckyballs, and more. Get hooked on realistic biomedical simulations from a virtual lab and interact with the ocean currents that carried the Titanic on its fateful trip. Plus: can you do calculations faster than a computer in our HPC Grand Challenge?
Learn more about PSC. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
PPG Industries (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
HONK if you love science! Innovative technology for products for transportation will be featured at PPG's SciTech exhibit themed "Innovation: Road to the Future." Check out our 1923 Fort T-Bucket vehicle, speed shapes, AudioGuard acoustic coatings and a silica demo complete with tattoos and a chance to win prizes at our daily drawings!
Learn more about
PPG Industries
Anchors: S.11.B.3.3; S.11.B.3.3.1; S.11.B.3.3.3; S.11.C.2.1; S.11.C.2.2.1; S.11.C.2.2.2; S.11.C.2.2.3
Standards: 3.7.10 (A, B); 3.7.12 (B); 3.8.10 (A, B, C); 3.8.12 (A, B, C) |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
PPG Industries (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
HONK if you love science! Innovative technology for products for transportation will be featured at PPG's SciTech exhibit themed "Innovation: Road to the Future." Check out our 1923 Fort T-Bucket vehicle, speed shapes, AudioGuard acoustic coatings and a silica demo complete with tattoos and a chance to win prizes at our daily drawings!
Learn more about
PPG Industries
Anchors: S8.A.1.2; S8A.1.2.2; S8.A.1.3.4
Standards: 3.7.7 (A, B); 3.8.7 (A, B)
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
RiverQuest (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Your visit to RiverQuest includes:
Green Boat Science - an interactive pH activity (titration)
River Mystery Contest/Drawing - is the mystery object natural ...or due to human activity?
Nautical Name Badges - translate your name into nautical flag code.
Learn more about RiverQuest.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
RiverQuest (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Your visit to RiverQuest includes:
Green Boat Science - an interactive pH activity (titration)
River Mystery Contest/Drawing - is the mystery object natural ...or due to human activity?
Nautical Name Badges - translate your name into nautical flag code.
Learn more about RiverQuest. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
SAE International (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Experience hands-on experimentation with SAE, the premier society dedicated to advancing mobility engineering worldwide.
Learn more about
SAE.
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| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
No dates yet
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| Organization: |
Society of Plastics Engineers (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
TBD |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Society of Plastics Engineers (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
TBD |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
University of Pittsburgh (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Every day is a new experience! Take an interactive look into some of the most current research going on at the University of Pittsburgh. Get a new perspective on the brain, step into virtual reality, magnify the world around you, build a bone, and much more!
Learn more about the current science and research going on at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Anchors: S.11.A.1.2; S.11.A.2.2; S.11.A.2.2.2
Standards: 3.1.10 (B, C, E); 3.1.12 (A, B, C, E); 3.2.10 (A); 3.3.10 (A); 3.3.12 (A, B); 3.6.10 (B, C); 3.6.12 (A); 3.7.10 (A); 3.7.12 (B) |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
University of Pittsburgh (middle school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Every day is a new experience! Take an interactive look into some of the most current research going on at the University of Pittsburgh. Get a new perspective on the brain, step into virtual reality, magnify the world around you, build a bone, and much more!
Learn more about the current science and research going on at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Anchors: S8.A.1.1; S8.A.1.1.4; S8.A.1.2
Standards: 3.1.7 (B, C, E); 3.2.7 (A); 3.3.7 (A); 3.6.7 (A, B); 3.7.7 (A, B) |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/10/2008 9:00 AM
3/11/2008 9:00 AM
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| Organization: |
Ward's Natural Science (high school) |
| Description: |
Tech Zone Exhibits
Using four different samples of WARD’S Simulated Blood, the teachers and students will determine each unknown sample’s blood type and Rh factor, examine the risk of Rh incompatibilities, and view red and white “blood cells” under the microscope in complete safety. |
| Exhibit Start Date/Times: |
3/12/2008 9:00 AM
3/13/2008 9:00 AM
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