Loudoun County Public High Schools
Science, Technology & Engineering Day
Friday, February 22, 2008, 9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
(Snowdate: Tuesday, February 26, 2008)
Please Note: Due to inclement weather this event has been postponed to the snowdate of Tuesday, February 26.
Welcome to Science, Technology & Engineering Day for Loudoun County Public
High Schools! The day is yours to enjoy. We celebrate National Engineering
Month on George Washington’s birthday. 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 from a dozen workshops to match your interests in science, technology, or engineering, then meet with corporation representatives to determine which career path might be right for you! Exciting and challenging workshops have been developed by GW faculty and graduate students to introduce careers in the fields of science, technology, and engineering using hands-on experiments and demonstrations.
You and your classmates can choose to build a 20 foot modular bridge or digitize a crash test dummy; create an electrical circuit, or learn how your BlueTooth works; track hackers breaking into a system or learn life saving techniques by playing a computer game. Expert crisis management skills will save the life of “simulation man,” or you can exercise your investigative skills by separating fact from fabrication in accident investigation. Explore Pharmacogenomics and how CSI techniques determine how to personalize medication to work best with your body chemistry—and more!
Follow your dreams or ambitions through any four of the workshops offered —we welcome you and your teachers to the second GW Engineering and Technology Day for Loudoun County Public High Schools!