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April 28, 2016
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NKY MakerSpace World Maker & Inventor Expo



More than 1,500 students, parents educators, business leaders and community members attended the Saturday event at Boone County High School.  The World Maker and Inventor Expo celebrated making, inventing, problem solving and innovation with robotics, 3D printing, drones/aerospace projects, launchers, coding, Arduino, and engineering. Projects and programs were featured from more than 70 schools, companies and organizations in the greater Cincinnati area.  Students voted on which school they wanted to receive the grand prize of a MONOPRICE 3D Printer.  Conner Middle School received the top vote. Congratulations to the students at Conner Middle! Below are pictures from the Expo.
There were so many things to excite and mesmerize students at the World Maker and Inventor Expo.  Below a simple fan is elevated and turned on its side with a cylinder attached to wood allows students to experiment with floating objects. Other stations at the Expo included a laptop flight simulator, a glider fashioned out of PVC tubing and battling robots.
Paper helicopter in cylinder
Paper helicopters fly
out of the cylinder
Battling Robots


PVC Glider

Laptop flight simulator

Boone County Schools offers an array of interesting STEM coursework for students.  Below schools are showcasing their various opportunities for students such as the Biomedical Science series, Medical Detectives Courses, and use of creative math to create modular crooked playhouses designed using trapizoids.

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Draft designs of crooked playhouses

Electronic & Tech gadgets from MONOPRICE

GORILLAMAKER 3D Printers
Robot launches tennis balls

Each student attending the Expo had the opportunity to experience or work on a project and could take something home from their efforts at the Expo.   


Creative mask built completely from Legos
Drones
More drones





Virtual Reality Sensory Experience watching Toyota build vehicles
 
Students proudly displayed their 3D work, Lego Robotic creations, Arduinos (prototypes for interactive electronic objects) as well as other creative designs from their school coursework. 

Brainy Bots & Odyssey of the Mind
Students designed miniature
 3D Torches for Expo

Arduino

Creating with Adobe Illustrator