High School

C2 Education SAT Jeopardy

C2 Education will provide an interactive Jeopardy game that offers students and parents the opportunity to answer grade level questions in SAT subject matter including Math, Reading and Writing. Every participant will receive a certificate for a free academic consultation and be entered into a drawing for prizes to be awarded during the course of the expo.

Ferring Research Institute

Ferring is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative treatments in the areas of reproductive health, urology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and orthopaedics; as well as a world leader in peptide and protein therapeutics. For EXPO Day 2016 FRI will have participants make a beaded keychain featuring the amino acid sequence of the peptide hormone Vasopressin.

AeroED Group

Display of aerospace-related demonstration items, including manufactured parts and materials for teachers and students to handle and inspect. Information and experts will be present to offer aerospace career pathway opportunities in universities and industry. Young industry engineers, pilots, educators will engage with challenging critical-thinking examples of aerospace design, manufacturing, operation, including technical skills not requiring a college degree.

Biology in 3D

This exhibit is organized by the RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) at UCSD. The PDB is the single worldwide resource for the 3D structures of proteins and DNA. In this exhibit students will learn about the basic building blocks of life: DNA and Proteins. The first part consists of building a small fragment of double stranded DNA using marshmallows and tooth picks. In the second part, students will build a small portion of protein backbone by visualizing it on a computer display and then folding it from a piece of wire.

Making Molecules - Which Molecule Is It?

This interactive, chemistry focused booth will use a multimodality format to demonstrate how our chemists identify and make molecules! Visitors will learn why chirality and techniques like thin layer chromatography are so important in chemical research labs like ours. Participants will be able to smell samples of chiral molecules and guess which chiral molecule they are smelling. A poster and 3-D models of the chiral molecular structures and their significance will be on display.

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