Collaborated With: ACT

Join CAST visiting artist Lara Baladi in conversation around the multidisciplinary project Vox Populi.
Participate in making a spatialized archive of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and test an interactive timeline based on the artist's archive. Navigate a website showing the genealogy of Vox Populi and the projects that have stemmed from the archive.

Participants have the opportunity to create simple, non-toxic polymer from everyday household materials.

A hands-on demonstration of a handheld gamma spectroscopy system built by a student. Discussion of uses of gamma spectroscopy.

Get your daily dose of radiation... physics! See DIY Geiger counters, learn how to shield yourself from radiation, visualize background radiation using supercooled alcohol vapor in a cloud chamber, and use a high-voltage spark gap to detect the presence of alpha particles, a type of ionizing radiation. Come learn about what we do in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and how you can build your own radiation detector to find radiation in your environment.

Work the Climate Calculator to see if you can make the choices needed to reduce the global average temperature enough to save the world from the most disastrous consequences of climate change. Or spin the Greenhouse Gamble roulette wheels to compare the likely impact of different climate policies on the rate of global warming.

Join us and witness the Cloud Chamber as it creates conditions where you can see the ion trails of radioactive particles passing through.

Collaborated With: Arts at MIT

The McGee Lab for Paleoclimate and Geochronology (http://www.mit.edu/~davidmcg/index.html) focuses on how precipitation and wind patterns responded to past climate changes. We will be exhibiting cave deposits (stalagmites), lake deposits, and marine sediment from around the world and explaining a little bit about our research. We will also have climate-themed coloring pages for kids (and adults!).

Collaborated With: MIT Energy Initiative

Our goal will be to highlight all of the student-lead energy research and innovation happening on campus. We will have a table with information on how to engage with the club, 2-3 prototypes of student-developed technologies, and games for people to engage in.

Come and explore a variety of hands-on energy projects and displays at the MIT Energy Initiative's (MITEI) Maker Space. Featuring demonstrations by some of the many students and faculty associated with MITEI, this space is a place to learn more about the wealth of fun, interesting energy research happening on campus.