Family Track

Bring the whole family and experience hands-on activities and inspiring speakers together! The ultimate goal of the family track is to create excitement and interest in science and math, in order to set the stage for students to go into technical fields. A promised by-product of the track is FUN with your family!

Agenda:

Tuesday July 31, 2007

8:30am – 10:00am General session: Opening Keynote
James Kennedy "Perspectives on Leadership and Space Exploration"

10:30am -12:30pm Gerald Wagner, "Creativity and Imagination"
Gerald Wagner will discuss creativity and demonstrate tools that can help children ages 8-15 resuscitate their imaginations

12:30pm - 1:30pm lunch

1:30pm - 2:30pm General session: Keynote Jim Swartz, Seeing David in the Stone

2:30pm – 4:30pm LEGO® MINDSTORMS®
Children of all ages will use LEGOs® to build robots that move from sound, touch, and light sensors. Additional engineering activities for children include bumper cars, line follower, ferris wheel, ping pong ball launcher and a Tiger Woods Challenge. A breakdown by age group is:

a. 5-8 year olds: bumper cars, line follower, Ferris wheel, and ping pong ball launcher
b. 9-12 year olds: Programming and demos: Tiger Woods Challenge
c. >12 year olds: Advanced Programming: Tiger Woods Challenge

4:00pm – 6:00pm Poster Sessions

6:30pm – 9:00pm Banquet

For additional information about LEGO® MINDSTORMS®, please visit the following links:

http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6350232.html
?nid=2337&rid=277109620

http://www.ni.com/academic/mindstorms/

http://130.64.87.22/robolabatceeo/

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/5221

http://www.firstlegoleague.org/

http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=60

http://www.legoengineering.com/

http://www.lego.com/eng/education/mindstorms/default.asp?
domainredir=www.mindstormseducation.com

http://www.ni.com/academic/mindstorms/works.htm

http://mindstorms.lego.com/?domainredir=www.legomindstorms.com

http://www.ni.com/academic/mindstorms/robotics.htm