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Sally Ride Science Festival

is a science festival that brings together hundreds of 5th to 8th grade girls for a festive day of science and socializing. There is usually one in the San Diego area every year, and we host an interactive exhibit.

Check out the homepage regularly for upcoming festivals. Go to top

Girls' Day Out

is and event hosted by both TESC and SPAWAR. The event celebrates women who are in the field of science and engineering; its purpose is to promote science and engineering to middle school girls. There are great keynote speakers from local women engineers and scientists; hands on experiments are led by UCSD students and professionals.

Contact the current TESC outreach chair, Stephan Kemper, at wkemper [at] ucsd.edu or the SPAWAR outreach director James Rohr Spawar james.rohr [at] navy.mil.

For more information: News Article: SSC Pacific, News Article, or Flyer. Go to top

Eureka!

Engineering Undergraduate Research Konference and Assembly is an annual research conference for undergrads. It is an opportunity to display work and have it seen by CAP members and important administrators such as the Dean and chairs of the engineering departments. There is a cash prize for the winning poster. All projects should participate in Eureka.

For more information, visit Eureka or contact Erica Kosa at ekosa [at] soe.ucsd.edu Go to top

Enspire

Enspire is a student-run outreach event designed to introduce middle school students to university-level engineering. Approximately 400 students came to the UCSD campus on Wednesday, February 18th, to participate in a day of events that would familiarize them with the many opportunities in engineering. From 10am to noon, the students went on a series of lab tours and attended an engineering fair where many student organizations and engineering companies exhibited hands-on demonstrations. We hosted a booth where students could play with robots and learn how to build a simple circuit.

For more information, contact the current TESC outreach representative, Henry Yip, at masters614 [at] gmail.com or visit the these websites: UCSD Enspire and Event Page. Go to top

IEEE Xtreme 24-hour Programming Contest

IEEEXtreme is a worldwide contest in which teams of student members, supported by an IEEE Student Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE Member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. We place 4th out of 135 in the 2008 contest. The 2008 contest took place March 8, 2008.

Link to the official websites can be found here and here. Go to top

SD Science Festival

Expo Day on Saurday, April 4th, the festival's grand finale in Balboa Park, brought together over 50,000 attendees from all over the county, state,and even the world to visit over 200 different booths and watch over 25 science-related performances. Sponsor companies and collaborating organizations provided activities for families and people of all ages including finger painting with algae, playing catch with a robot, looking through telescopes at sunspots, racing remote controlled cars, making test-tube lava lamps, and creating musical instruments. We hosted an interactive exhibit at this event.

Visit the San Diego Science Festival Homepage. Go to top

Annual Lasertag Challenge

The lasertag challenge is an event where the various engineering orgs face off at ultrazone in a laser show down.

Learn more about the event at Pew Pew. Go to top

Engineering Explorations

Do you like math and science? Do you enjoy building stuff? Then you might be a future engineer! Find out what it takes to earn a degree in engineering, and how to get there. Come experience engineering firsthand, learn about college, and meet students from the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering!

Visit UCSD's TESC for more information. Go to top

Dragon Boat Festival

The annual dragon boat race is an event hosted by the San Diego Alliance for Asian Pacific Islander Americans where teams of 16 race dragon boats. Regular attendees include LG, Qualcomm, HP, and other high tech companies. This event is the best event of the year. It is held at mission bay, and Charles Tu pays our registration fee out of his personal money.

Check out this event at SD Alliance's homepage or Past Event. Go to top

Junkyard Derby

Inspired the popular TV show on The Learning Channel, "Junkyard Wars," UC San Diego's engineering community started the Junkyard Derby in 2004. For three weeks prior to the event, Engineering students scour the local community for "junk," acting as La Jolla's personal clean-up crew. The Junk Collection culminates in a Kick-Off Celebration where teams rush into a makeshift junkyard and attempt to grab the best junk with which to engineer their speed machines. After two nights and a day of building, the teams race down Peterson Hill in the middle of UC San Diego's campus with crowds of onlookers cheering them on and the hopes that their car will carry them to victory. IEEE UCSD won 2004 and 2005. We made good showings in 06, 07, 08.

Contact TESC for more information. Go to top

Quarterly Movie Night

We typically host a movie night 10th week. We use the Henry Booker room (reserve through Adolfo Juarez (ajuarez@ece.ucsd.edu)).

Visit Movie Night for more information. Go to top


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