Loudoun County Public High Schools

Science, Technology & Engineering Day

Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Welcome to Science, Technology & Engineering Day for Loudoun County Public High Schools! The day is yours to enjoy. While we rescheduled this year's event to April, it is usually held on George Washington's birthday during National Engineering Month. Born Feb. 22, 1732 in Pope’s Creek, Virginia, Washington worked as a surveyor at the age of 16, surveying the Shenandoah for Lord Fairfax. Following his presidency, Washington wanted to see a national university established in the nation’s new capital. In 1821, Congress created Columbian College which, in 1904, became The George Washington University.

Held at the GW Virginia Campus in celebration of National Engineering Month, GW faculty and graduate students will lead you through a day of workshops designed to illustrate the different engineering careers. They will demonstrate how engineers conduct research, amplify how technology has changed and melded with the field of engineering, and exhibit how both contribute to different careers such as crisis management and emergency medicine. 

Select workshops to match your interests in science, technology, or engineering. Exciting and challenging workshops have been developed by GW faculty and graduate students to introduce these careers using hands-on experiments and demonstrations.

You and your classmates can choose to build a 20 foot modular bridge; create an electrical circuit, track hackers breaking into a system or explore robotics. Find out about the emerging field of Pharmacogenomics, how technology is changing the world of nursing, applications of supercomputers, and much more.

Follow your dreams or ambitions through any of the workshops offered —we welcome you and your teachers to the third GW Engineering and Technology Day for Loudoun County Public High Schools!