
Organizing
Group:
Engineering societies,
industries and universities in the Rochester (NY) area.

Brief description
of the program:
The "E3
(Engineering, Exploration, and Experimentation) Fair" is an extension of
National Engineers Week but takes place in April to allow students to complete
the projects they might have been making for school anyway. (Also
to allow us to hold the Fair in the RIT Ice Rink; without the ice.)
The fair is a day-long event with separate daytime and evening programs.
During the day, middle school students display individual engineering projects
for judging, and/or participate in a team competitions including robotics.
Each team has a sponsoring teacher and a local volunteer engineer-mentor.
Typically, 650 students representing 28 middle schools, participate. Encircling
these exhibits, 20-30 technical engineering societies, industries, trade
and educational groups display hands-on engineering and science activities
for all ages. High school students also attend to gain exposure to engineering
career opportunities. Total attendance runs to 4000.
Budget:
Between $7000
and $8000 is raised annually, through donations from the various engineering
societies and local companies. It costs $3000 for the facility (rental,
custodian, utilities, supplies for booths), $1500 for mailing, stationery,
publicity, $1000 for gifts for all participants, $2000 for awards.
Number of people
involved:
A core of 12 people
make up the committee. Each year a new lead Engineering Society is
selected and provides the E3 chairperson.
Contact:
For more detailed
information contact Dr. Jayanti Venkataraman (1998 Chair), Dept. of Electrical
Engineering, RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, (585) 475-2143,
or Jon Kriegel (2000 Chair) kriegelj@asme.org
at Eastman Kodak (585) 726-5114.