The following workshops are available for the Tri-Valley EYH 2012 Conference.
| PC Maintenance and Repair - Learn about the internal hardware of a computer. During the workshop,
you will dismantle a working computer, identify and discuss the internal components,
and rebuild the system. |
| Amazing Every-Day Chemistry - We are surrounded by chemistry every moment of the day. We will discuss some of this amazing chemistry using interactive demonstrations and experiments. Workshop participants will then explore the chemistry behind disposable diapers and use their science and math skills to compete in a "Diaper War" experiment to determine, based on their experimental results, how much water a disposable diaper can hold. Are you up to the challenge? |
| Industrial Hygienists: Workplace Detectives - Industrial hygienists are workplace detectives; recognizing, evaluating, and solving complex health and safety issues in a variety of occupational environments. Learn how to evaluate health and safety risks, such as chemical, noise, biological (mold) and radiation hazards, by using analytical instruments, demonstrating how to use personal protective safety equipment, and by participating in other industrial hygiene related demonstrations. |
| Look Out! We're Surrounded by LEGO™ Robotics - Join us in discovering
the many robots that we use every day, and some we do not! Build, program, and
run a real LEGO™ robot. Cheer your team's robot in a demonstration! |
| The Science of Sound - Explore the basic physics that governs the behavior of sound and musical instruments. After exploring the science of vibration, resonance, and pitch, build some simple musical instruments out of common materials. By the end of the class you should come away with your own musical instrument and the ability to invent new musical instruments of your own design. |
| Green Power! - Learn how to design your very own wind turbine and make green, renewable power from the wind. |
| Wow! Look At Those Properties Changing! - Learn about different materials' physical properties. We will discuss the properties of everyday things, but we will also change the properties of different materials with liquid nitrogen and a little starch! |
| Girls on the Mic! - Explore the careers of recording engineers, music producers, live sound reinforcement engineers, radio producers, and more. Learn to record music, operate a small public address system, and use a digital audio workstation to record and edit voice and sound effects. Come ready to make some noise! |
| Modern Alchemy: How Livermorium Came to Be - Explore the world of the atom and learn how synthetic elements are created. Examine what an element is and how they are organized in the periodic table, discuss what an atom is made of and its size, find out what transmutation is and how it relates to creating synthetic elements, and conclude with the process that is currently under way to name element 116 Livermorium. |
| Balloon Gives Us Light? - Turning on the light requires just a flip of the switch. Have you ever imagined lighting a light bulb without touching the light switch? In this workshop, we will show you how to light a light bulb by just using a balloon. You will also learn about how an energy-saving light bulb works and how electricity works. |
| Life in a Vacuum - What is vacuum? How does vacuum affect our life? See ice, water, steam together a beaker. Sputter coat a penny just like what happens to a silicon wafer. Watch marshmallow peeps blow up in a bell jar! |
| Nursing and Health Information Technology Innovation - The future of nursing is patient-and-family centered—with the patient's home as the hub of where care will be coordinated and interconnected across clinical/social/community domains—so that care can be delivered anywhere the patient is located and enabled by innovative technologies to support the future of health care, which promises to span and connect across the world! |
Junior Vets for Pets - Learn what it's like to work in a veterinary hospital and how the interaction and teamwork of the veterinary nursing staff with the veterinarians provides the best care for the patients and their owners. Experience hands-on what the veterinary nursing staff does daily to assist the doctor and monitor patients in the hospital and those who have come in for their appointments.
Note: Needles and syringes will be used for demonstrations and during the hands-on activities (using citrus fruit as the test subjects). |
| Fingerprinting Whodunnit? - Learn about the history of fingerprinting and the main types of fingerprints. Make prints of your own fingers and examine the patterns. Dust for latent prints on water or soda containers. |
| Cardboard Automata - Join the fun in making your very own cardboard automata using shoe boxes and common household items such as straws and skewers! This workshop is a fun, environmentally friendly way to explore simple machine elements such as cams, levers, and linkages while creating a mechanical structure. |
