Wednesday, June 18, 2014

World Science Festival: Street Fair, Apprenticeships, and Cool Jobs

This year, in addition to the WSF Street Festival, we signed Mikro up to do two apprenticeship programs: Neurologist's Apprentice (dissecting a sheep brain) and Archaeologist's Apprentice (learning about nondestructive 3d modeling of artifacts in situ and doing a faux dig), and got tickets for the always awesome Cool Jobs panel. This year they had a roboticist, an evolutionary biologist who studies leeches and other parasites, two archaeologists, and an astronaut. I love how passionate they are about their fields, and how they were once science loving geeky kids, and are full of encouragement for the young people in the audience. Michael Massimino, the astronaut, emphasized the value of never ever giving up and always following your dreams. I think that is a message everyone can benefit from!

Unfortunately, Mikro didn't take a single photo at either of his apprentice programs. He was too busy learning and having fun to even think about the camera in his pocket.

So here are some photos from the rest of the day, and I will link the videos of Cool Jobs and the Flame Challenge: What Is Color at the end.

Enjoy!

Street Festival:

astromike

bd5j

braincompare

brainhuman

brainmodel

goodwishes


roverbot

heelcuriosity

lunarrover

lunarrover2

skylabkev

skylabmikro

skylabsimhatch1

skylabsimhatch2

streetfair1

streetfair2

streetfair3

streetfair4

withmrbones

wneildgtsorta


Robot Expo:

kimmelrobots

boymeetsbot

depthperceptrobotportrait

depthperceptrobotportrait2

duckyrobotfacialmapping1

duckyrobotfacialmapping2

duckyrobotfacialmapping3

duckyrobots4

motionmimicmodeling

motionmimicrobot

objectrecognition

robotsoccer

robotticklish


Cool Jobs:

atcooljobs

festivalcofounderbriangreene

masterofceremoniessciencebob

roboticist

leechguy

archaeol1

archaeol2

astronaut

microgdemo

Running off to the lab as an apprentice:

archaeologistsapprenticestolab

Mikro had an awesome day!

happylittlesciencegeek

More WSF here:

socialmedia

Videos:

What is Color?

Cool Jobs

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