Maritime Science Expo 11/13

Save the Date:

Maritime Science Expo

Save the Dates: Nov. 13, 2010

The Maritime Alliance, SD County Office of Education, SD Science Alliance, Aquatic Adventures, NOAA, and the Maritime Museum of SD, are pleased to announce the  San Diego Maritime Week Science Expo. The Expo provides unique opportunities for schools, classes, or individual students to showcase a project which demonstrates research and understanding of maritime related science and technology. Fifth through twelfth grade students of all private, parochial, and public schools of San Diego County are invited to participate.

Participation in the Expo integrates, into one functional activity, virtually all of the skills and arts that are usually taught separately in many schools. When brought to completion, the project is an amalgamation of reading, writing, spelling, grammar, math, statistics, ethics, logic, critical thinking, computer science, graphic arts, scientific methodology, self-learning of San Diego’s maritime industry and the environment in which it resides. The Expo offers innovative classroom teachers and young leaders who have career aspirations an opportunity to showcase their preparation, discipline, and drive to improve and enhance our understanding and utilization of one of San Diego’s great natural resources.

An Expo project can be self-validating and exciting because it is not just practice, it involves real discovery of little known or even unknown information. It develops personal power of importance in students, where perhaps none or little existed before.

Participants are invited to participate in one of two areas of interest:

a)    A STEM based challenge of developing a water-tight hull which could serve as an underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV). A complete project would include the details the plan used, chronicle of the process and a review of literature concerning the functionality of UROV’s in the maritime industry. Final projects will be evaluated upon thoroughness and professionalism of presentation as well as an in-water test at the Expo. Classes or individual students advanced in STEM based understanding may submit a functioning UROV to perform a specified challenge in a higher level of competition.

b)    A general environmental exhibition which presents the results of an environmental study or restoration project concerning an area related to one of San Diego’s bays, estuaries, tidelands or terrestrial riparian areas influencing a salt water area.

The exhibition may be an individual, small group, class or school wide endeavor which demonstrates, promotes, and/or creates an awareness of the significance of environmental and commercial aspects of San Diego’s Big Bay.  The project to be exhibited may be based on questions or interests that teachers have led their class(es) to investigate or that the students already have, and allows them to develop the questions independently into formal, testable, solvable problems. When such studies are undertaken in earnest, the students often become driven by their projects. Learning the outcome and finding the answer can be an electrifyingly powerful moment of discovery. It proves to the student, and to others, that they were successful and that they did it on their own!

Make plans to exhibit student marine or maritime projects.  All exhibits must be removed completely from the exhibition area no later than 5:00 pm on Nov. 13.

Registration:

CLICK HERE to register online for the Maritime Science Expo

Online registration can also be accessed through The Maritime Alliance.

More information is available at www.themaritimealliance.org or call Bill Riedy at 619-450-4600 x 182 or e-mail briedy@thesecuritynetwork.org.

Other Activities:

Maritime Museum of San Diego in celebration of the 146^th anniversary of the Star of India will have “Family Days” on Nov. 14-15. Admission is free for children 12 and under accompanied by a parent.

Maritime Art & Film Festival will also be located in the Cruise Ship Passenger Terminal. Short films will play in Section A of the terminal, interspersed with interesting lectures on various topics from marine technology to naval history in San Diego. Art will be displayed in Section C, and live artists will work on the north apron near the water.

Research and Other Vessels will be docked at the Broadway Pier and along north along the Embarcadero. Many of these vessels will be open to the public.

Maritime Week is designed to promote the maritime community within San Diego, to increase its visibility, and to recognize San Diego as a leading international maritime center.