[MakeLV] Science Festival plans: Looking Good...

[Josiah Ritchie]

MakeLV @ the Science Festival is looking really good.

*If you would like to be involved, there are a few opportunities below.*

This will be a great chance to become visible in the community. This
Thursday (tomorrow) we will have a mock-up of the booth.

*What we have: *

   - booth space that can fit an 8' table. Dimensions are uncertain.
   - A blinky Hive4a sign (Thanks Jim!)
   - Plans to teach soldering (Using the MakerShed kit, Thank Jim & Tom!)
   - Passing out information on soldering
   - A few people to man the booth
   - Tables and power
   - Camera to show soldering in the background
   - Setup ED (http://projects.josiahritchie.com/projects/ed) for folks to
   play with.

Dave sent out the flyer or you can see it on the blog:
http://makelehighvalley.com/blog/2012/04/science-festival-of-the-lehigh-valley/
.

The Exhibitor Guide is also available:
http://www.davincisciencecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Science-Festival-Lehigh-Valley-Carnival-Exhibitor-Guide.pdf.
This states that we have an 8-foot table, 2 chairs and a booth with three
sides. Matthew is getting two booths and this space he is sharing with us.
I have some fold-up tables that could be contributed to the purpose. We
should have electricity and Internet access (I believe we asked for that.)

*What we need **(if you can help with one of these, please let us know)**:*

   - More small demos to put around and show what's going on. (see Project
   Ideas below)
   - More people to hang around the table for an hour or longer between
   10am and 4pm.
   - A system to schedule people to get in on the soldering tutorial.
   - A method of taking payments for the soldering tutorial.
   - A card or something small with our website on it to give people who
   come by. (Dan's Camera?)
   - Equipment check - make sure we have everything to safely teach
   soldering classes.

*Project Ideas*
If you would like to create a simple interactive something, but don't have
any ideas, here are some I don't expect to have time to implement...

   - Fiber Optics: I have a sturdy fiber optic cable that visibly passes
   light, some strong colorful LEDs setup to shine color through or a small
   color screen that folks could hold one end of the fiber up to then see it
   come out the other would show off fiber tech.
   - Conductivity: A simple circuit to trigger a light with a variety of
   materials to test for conductivity. Will it light if I put a feather, a
   spoon, wood, rubber and other things in the circuit.
   - I have code for an Arduino and a number pad from an electronic
   battleship game that makes lots of tunes on a piezo. I don't have an
   Arduino that is free at the moment. I also don't have a sturdy enough case
   to put this on display.
   - Resistor Demo: A simple circuit that would enable people to swap out
   resistors in one place to see how it impacted the brightness of an LED
   - Lemon Battery
   - Home-made Electro magnet
   - Photoresistor: A simple circuit to light up an LED according to how
   much resistance a photoresistor provides - maybe one of the 555 circuits
   that we did earlier could be adapted to this to be even a bit more advanced.
   - Solar Power: Something based on solar power could hit a trending
   interest. This could be as easy as having one of the solar lights in the
   space torn apart and laid out with some labels to explain how it works.
   - Your Idea: If you have something that hits your fancy, I'm all for it.
   - Astronomy: (Chris Callie?)
   - Chemistry:

*People to Attend the Booth*
I'm shamelessly stealing this from Ellis' earlier email... The event is on
April 14th (10a-4p).

Please respond if you can commit to being there.  We will need 3+ people
there at a time so we can also rotate wandering around the event itself.
 If you wish to volunteer for a shift, please specify one of the following
(1/2 hour extra for setup and take down):
1/3 day Shift: 9:30-12, 12-2, 2-4:30
1/2 day Shift: 9:30-1, 1-4:30

This information will be kept up-to-date on the wiki:
http://makelehighvalley.com/wiki/ScienceFestival2012

JSR/

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