Saturday, March 14, 2015

Arizona SciTech Festival

Hello everyone!
So yesterday (Friday, March 13th) was the Arizona SciTech Festival, where I helped (with four of the Kids Team children and several of the adult Kids Team members) to operate the Kids Team booth, complete with media
videos of Kids Team, a station for showing a Kids Team technique called Layered Elaboration (where transparent sheets are put one on top of the other as other people modify ideas), and a prize wheel (prizes included hex bugs, little flashlights, magnifying glasses, and stickers).
Besides us, there were lots of cool booths to visit; there was a 3D printer, an alligator, a petting zoo, robot fighting, a photo booth, karate people teaching children how to break boards, rockets, a man making balloon animals, a guy making ice cream with liquid nitrogen (he was really popular as you might imagine), and lots of other things. The liquid nitrogen guy also put on a little display of what
liquid nitrogen can do, which was fun. Among other things, he froze (and then shattered) a plastic ball, made a fog machine, and, of course, made ice cream.
This was one of the rockets I saw yesterday: we were all very curious as to how the maker managed to construct the top cone out of the Pringles can...
And remember that Kids Team sign I drew for decoration? Well, apparently it was a little too good because I now seem to be the go-to person for artsy signage:
This is what I get for liking fancy letters.

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6 comments:

  1. Daria BazziMarch 14, 2015 at 7:16 PM

    Haha I'm sure you'll enjoy all the times you have to create fancy signs :) It sounds like it was a lot of fun! I'm glad you had a good time.

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  2. UnknownMarch 17, 2015 at 9:46 AM

    "a 3D printer, an alligator," Hey look two of my favorite things!
    So how many people visited your booth approximately?
    And to be fair, you DO have really artsy signs, so I don't blame them.

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    1. Kaitlyn DietlinMarch 18, 2015 at 3:42 PM

      Yeah, I enjoyed looking at all the cool things going on.
      I don't actually know how many people visited our booth in total... I think there was an estimate of 200 people coming at one point, but I really don't know. All I know is that we handed out a LOT of prizes.
      And I kind of enjoy making the signs, so I don't particularly mind. :)

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  3. Lorentz HouserMarch 18, 2015 at 4:54 PM

    Sounds like you're having fun! So is this part of your research at all or was it just for fun?

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    1. Kaitlyn DietlinMarch 18, 2015 at 7:29 PM

      The booth was not part of my research in any way - it was just for fun and because they needed some of the Kids Team people to help explain the techniques to people to help recruit new children for various testing purposes.

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  4. Navya DasariMarch 20, 2015 at 10:50 AM

    I know it's rather late to ask this question, but I realized I'm not entirely sure. What exactly is Pearson and Kids Team? Is this a school or a day care or something like that?

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