{"id":368,"date":"2010-10-24T06:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/usa-science-and-engineering-festival"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:38:30","slug":"usa-science-and-engineering-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/10\/usa-science-and-engineering-festival.html","title":{"rendered":"USA Science and Engineering Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20134886dc7ec970c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20134886dc7ec970c\" title=\"Usa festival1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20134886dc7ec970c-800wi.jpg\" alt=\"Usa festival1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am fortunate to be in Washington DC this weekend at the USA Science and Engineering Festival right on Pennsylvania Avenue.\u00a0 What a great time to be an engineer \u00a0Dr. Rubrik (yes the cube).\u00a0 There are hundreds of exhibits here.\u00a0In an early morning interview with Engineering.com,\u00a0\u00a0I overheard Larry Bock, founder of Nanosys, and festival director\u00a0 say &#8220;there used to be World&#8217;s Fairs to inspire&#8221; &#8211; this event is definitely the new World&#8217;s Fair of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of kids visited\u00a0at our tent yesterday and with the help of our partner the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stem101.org\/index.asp\" target=\"_self\">STEM Academy<\/a>, you can race a car and experience the effects of pressure or create your own elastic material and take a sample home.\u00a0 So many of our customers stopped by to share with their children what we do and explain how they use SolidWorks at their companies.\u00a0 Our new <a href=\"www.SolidWorks.com\/robotics\" target=\"_self\">robot tutorials\u00a0<\/a> were a big hit for the\u00a0robot teams and LEGO lovers that explore so many amazing exhibits.\u00a0 Math is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00a0is another day at the Festival and there will be more stage\u00a0performings singing about\u00a0&#8220;fun with Physics&#8221;\u00a0.\u00a0 No matter what your age,\u00a0this is an event not to miss in years to come.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am fortunate to be in Washington DC this weekend at the USA Science and Engineering Festival right on Pennsylvania Avenue.\u00a0 What a great time to be an engineer \u00a0Dr. Rubrik (yes the cube).\u00a0 There are hundreds of exhibits here.\u00a0In<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/10\/usa-science-and-engineering-festival.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5205,4344,5211],"tags":[5151,5152,4230,4976,4228,4229],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stem-course","category-sustainability","category-technology-2","tag-festival","tag-green","tag-math","tag-robots","tag-science","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/20731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}