An official website of the United States government.
Who We Are and What We’re Doing: We are from the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) and we are currently seeking college student volunteers to help us host a nanotechnology booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival (USASEF). The USASEF is the biggest science and engineering festival in the country, with 250,000 visitors expected this year. The event will be held at the Washington DC Convention Center on April 26-27 from 9am-6pm. If you haven’t been to USASEF before, you should definitely sign up! At the last USASEF in 2012, there was an Air Force fighter jet parked right near our booth, and an engineer was driving around in a giant robotic spider.
Volunteers will be asked to use nanotechnology tabletop demos to illustrate nanotechnology concepts to visitors, and to answer their questions. A science and engineering background or interest in this field is helpful for this event. If you aren’t a nanotechnology expert, that’s ok! These demos were created and tested by science museum staff and educators and were specifically developed to be easy to use and understand. Each demo comes with simple instructions that are less than a page long. And don’t worry, if you have any questions about the demos or about nanotechnology, a staff member will be on site to help you. We want the event to be fun our volunteers as well as our visitors.
We plan to staff the booth with three students per each 2-3 hour shift. If you have a friend or two that you’d like to work with, please let us know and we will try our best to accommodate that request. Student volunteers will also receive a Nano.gov t-shirt to wear at the event and to take home. When you are not staffing the booth you will be free to explore the USASEF!
If you are interested, please contact:
Marlowe Newman
mnewman@nnco.nano.gov
