USA Science and Engineering Festival

We went to a HUGE science festival downtown at the Washington Convention Center. First up was an amazing laser light lesson and show put on by SPIE.

 We had 4 hours to spend at the festival and we decided to focus on the two areas that seemed most interesting to our crew: Space (NASA) and Oceanography.

 

  Virtual reality tour of the Orion mission rocket.

 Soft circuits made at the FERMI station (Gamma Ray Space Telescope)

 This year's American girl doll is an astronaut. She had a lot of cool space tools and toys.

 The kids did the NASA scavenger hunt cards. They had to go to 9 stations and talk to the reps at each one in order to get a stamp.  The reward was pass through the fast track line to try the simulator.