BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Tendenci - The Open Source AMS for Associations//Tendenci Codeba se MIMEDIR//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration.\r\nEvent d etails subject to change. ---\r\nhttps://www.spegcs.org/events/2072/\r\n\r \nEvent Title: 2012 HCC Chancellor's Symposium on Engineering\r\nStart Dat e / Time: Sep 29, 2012 07:45 AM US/Central\r\nLocation: Space Center Houst on\r\nSpeaker: \r\nGoogle\r\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=1601+NASA+Road+ 1,Houston,Texas,77058\r\n\r\nForecast\nhttp://www.weather.com/weather/mont hly/77058\r\n\r\n\r\n We will need volunteers for the educational sessions with the middle and high school students to encourage and engage the kids in interactive engineering activities.\r\n \r\n * Lunch /snacks will be provided and a parking voucher is available for the volunteers.\r\n * Vol unteer T-Shirts will be distributed to help better identify individuals fo r the students, parents, teachers and counselors to request help as needed .\r\n \r\n MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES \r\n *** Engin eering Food***\r\n o Bio engineering, chemical engineering (composition of water substrate, genetics of plants)\r\n o Show ways to get food to m ars and hydroponics and how they can be used to grow food and make O2\r\n o Use a calorimeter to determine the calories in staple foods that will be taken to Mars\r\n o Have them design a full set of meals for a day th at meet nutritional needs and can be made with the materials that they bri ng or grow there\r\n o Sculpt one element of the meal out of dough\r\n \ r\n ***Balloon Astronaut***\r\n o Bio-mechanical Engineering, structural engineering, space suit engineering (what materials to use in what order to support itself and the astronaut)\r\n o Talk about suit and space sta tion design and what materials are used to keep astronauts safe\r\n o Fi ll small balloons with water and try to protect them from &ldquo\;micro-me teoroids&rdquo\; using various protective materials (each represent a suit /layer component)\r\n o Taught using the scientific method\r\n \r\n HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES \r\n *** SVO Rover Activity***\r\n o Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering (electricity/wiring to mak e it run, actually constructing a machine that works) technology to make t he rovers wireless\r\n o Shows how we can explore Mars with limited risk to humans\r\n o Rover race/competition to see whose works the best in e ach group\r\n \r\n ***Habitat Design***\r\n o Civil engineering, industr ial engineering and Technology\r\n o Design a habitat that will meet all needs for protection as well as experimentation and living needs\r\n o M ust also meet space/size requirements\r\n o Actually build the habitat\r \n o 2 students using computer graphic software\r\n o 3 students work ing hands on with simulated materials\r\n \r\n *** Transportation/Rockets* **\r\n o Aerospace engineering, everything else engineering\r\n o Show current forms of propulsion and experimental forms of propulsion as well as rocket/shuttle designs, then have them design their own with 2 liter bo ttles\r\n o Each group get to launch water bottle rockets in the parking lot\r\n \r\n \r\n\n\n--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration. Event details subject to change. ---\r\n\r\n--- By Tendenci - The Open Sou rce AMS for Associations ---\r\n UID:uid2072@spegcs.org SUMMARY:2012 HCC Chancellor's Symposium on Engineering DTSTART:20120929T124500Z DTEND:20120930T000000Z CLASS:PUBLIC PRIORITY:5 DTSTAMP:20240328T175731Z TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 LOCATION:Space Center Houston X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: