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Presentation by Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS
Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library
University of Nevada, Reno
at the International Public Science Events Conference 2014, Chicago IL
February 12, 2014
@pcolegrove @DeLaMareLibrary
SURPRISE!YOU’RE ORGANIZING AN
EVENT
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About the University of Nevada, Reno:
A land-grant state university, established: 1874
Location: Reno, Nevada
Students: 18,227 (Fall 2012)
Faculty: 912
Full-time faculty holding highest degrees in their fields:
93 %
Degrees offered: A comprehensive selection of degree
programs at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral
level.
Accredited by: Northwest Commission on Colleges and
Universities (since 1938), plus 20 professionally
accredited programs.
University of Nevada, Reno, website “History, Stats, and Highlights”. Retrieved February, 2014 from http://www.unr.edu/discover-nevada/university-history
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If you haven’t been to the library recently…
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Photo by Nick Crowl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr/
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Photos by Nick Crowl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr/
“It’s kind of a magical place.”
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“Hey – we should have, like, a science fair!”
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Within days, over a half-dozen student organizations from the sciences &
engineering had committed to participating.
The Science Expo was going to happen!
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Image credit: 4187 Marketing. Retrieved from http://4187marketing.com/reinvention-owner-committment-v-corporate-involvement/
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Image credit: Traci Kuhn. Retrieved from http://frenchskincare.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/4627474115_5bbf1cff61.jpg
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Let’s do Science Faire!
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Image credit, right-hand side: Sparkfun Electronics, licensed under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).Retrieved June10, 2012, from http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10339
Image credit, left-hand side: Crowl, N. (2011). Student contemplating his Arduino-based creation: a DIY breathalyzer.
Sparkfun ArduinoInventor Pro kits…
Things we (the library) brought along:
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Wireless drone quadricopters…
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A 3D printer for live printing/demo…
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A button maker and lots of extra supplies…
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Even an electric vehicle modeled
after Little Boy, one of the first atomic
weapons.
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The engineering fraternity Theta Tau brought… a trebuchet?!
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Exhibits were several people deep through much of the time leading up to the talk.
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ASUN Student Clubs & OrganizationsIEEE iGEM team Concrete Canoe team
Chemistry club (non-Newtonian fluid)
Applied Math Department (programming demos,STEM outreach including Karel the robot)
Physics Department (hands-on demos, including a van de Graaf accelerator)
A few of the many other participants who made the event a success:
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Photo by Nick Crowl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr/
Post-expo: the talk by Bill Nye.
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A sold-out house of over 5,000…
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“YOU can change the world”
Photo by Nick Crowl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr/
“You can – dare I say it?Change the world.”
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Questions?
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead.