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Campus Middle School Robotics Club

areas of the field, addressing the science and application of each method. Various technologies Campus Middle School will be demonstrated. The Robotics Club is an afterLocation: East Atrium school program at Campus Middle School for Girls that uses This exhibit is suitable for: All the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Use kit to promote math, science, and engineering in a fun and in- in Residential Combined teractive way. The girls, ages 11- Heat and Power Systems 14, use Lego bricks to build their Agricultural and Biological Engiown robots, which are designed neering Department to complete series of tasks. This exhibit presents the benefits Location: East Atrium of using a hydrogen fuel cell in This exhibit is suitable for: High a home as a combined heat and School, College, General Public power system, meaning that it provides both electricity and heat Career Opportunities in for consumption by the resiAgricultural and Biologi- dents. The byproducts of a hydrogen fuel cell include electriccal Engineering Agricultural and Biological Engi- ity, heat, and water, thus making it environmentally friendly. neering Department Location: West Atrium Agricultural and Biological This exhibit is suitable for: GenEngineers solve engineering eral Public problems related to living orEngineering department. Booth also features photos of club events as well as general and contact information. Location: West Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: Middle School, High School, College, General Public

Indoor Localization (IGPS)

Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering This exhibit has a robot that knows its location using a spinning laser beam that hits three sensors in a board. Come see how it works! Location: West Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All

Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering In the BioMASS lab, we use models to help analyze how a ganisms and systems. Careers complex system works. In this inIllini Pullers are available in bioprocessing, teractive game, become part of a renewable energy, water and air Illini Pullers quality, food production systems, Illini Pullers will be displaying two carbon cycle model. We’ll show how a complex system model of their newest tractors along and other areas. Employment with a slideshow of events from works, and why little changes in is available in industry, governthe way we use fossil fuels can the past year. ment, and academics. make a big difference to global Location: West Atrium Location: West Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: High This exhibit is suitable for: High warming. School, College, General Public Location: West Atrium School, College This exhibit is suitable for: All

Interactive Carbon Cycle

The Frontiers of Bioengi- Illinois Student Branch of Observe Cosmic Particles neering: Applications and ASABE Agricultural and Biological Engi- from Space!! Design

Biomedical Engineering Society Technologies such as the Eye Mouse, MoCap Returns Motion Capture, and Wii Therapeutic will be examined. BMES will present an assortment of posters that summarize some of the hot neering Department Visitors will be given the opportunity to talk with members about club experiences, opportunities through the club and ASABE, and about being a member of the Agricultural and Biological Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering This exhibit demonstrates a method that makes elementary particles (alpha, beta) visible. Location: West Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All