Engineering Expo training resources
Glasses/Amorphous Metal/Atomic Trampoline
Forms of Carbon/Balloon Models (up to 4:55)
Liquid Crystals or Liquid Crystal Sensors
LEDs
Memory Metal
Triboelectricity
Here are some important things to keep in mind when interacting the public:
- Ask questions. Get a sense for what your audience knows and what else they might have learned that day.
- Talk slowly.
- Talk about yourself. What do you like about the activity you're presenting?
- Sometimes it helps to just stop talking and let the audience interact with the material. Sometimes the material just speaks for itself.
- Always ask them if they have any questions.
- Have fun. And make sure the audience is having fun. This is your opportunity to help a person create a positive emotional connection with science. If someone walks away from your activity with only one fact in their head and a smile on their face, you have succeeded in outreach.