The vintageTEK museum setup an exhibit at Bonny Slope Elementary School for their Science Night. Bonny Slope is part of the Beaverton Public School District. They serve Pre-Kindergarten to 5th grade and are one of the larger elementary schools in the district. Their annual science night is a fun-filled evening designed to excite and inspire 300+ students towards the fields of science and engineering. In partnership with local community organizations, students and families explore through hands-on activities and demonstrations. Attendees learn about fitness, nutrition, biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, coding, and more
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vintageTEK was asked back and had a booth staffed by volunteers Chris Curtin, Pat Green, and Gary Johnson. The booth was in a good traffic area in the school along with six other exhibits. The booth consisted of 
the 4052 demonstrating Instant Art, Scope Artist, using the microphone to explore sounds and envelopes, and our new demonstration of additive and subtractive light. This consists of a red, green, and blue flashlight that add to form white light. Partially blocking all three beams subtracts to display cyan, magenta, and yellow bands. We also had an Emmy there for the students to hold.
The exhibit was from 6pm to 8pm but the students started lining up before 6pm and stayed after 8pm. The vintageTEK exhibit was part of 9+ exhibitors, including OMSI, THPRD Nature Center, Washington County Sheriffs, KidoKinetics, Snapology, Oregon Bee Atlas, Vernier, Bonny Slope’s Tech Lab, the ACMA middle school robotics team, and Tumwater Middle School science experimenters. The exhibits were well attended with students exploring and participating non-stop.
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Science Night consists of a non-competitive Science Fair and kids can join as individuals or teams. The goals of the event are to get kids excited about Science and Engineering, expose them to different fields and expand their inquiring spirit. They had 107 kids participate this year in one of two categories (Engineering Projects or Science Experiments).
There were also 9 maker stations which included things like how tornadoes and earthquakes work, a hands on PH level experiment, microscopes, engineering structures and a few others.
The vintageTEK exhibit was part of 9 exhibitors which included of Engineering for Kids, First Lego League, Rachel Carson Environmental Science Middle School, Sunset High School's Computer Science & Engineering program, Bonny Slope Tech Lab, Washington County Sheriff's Forensics Lab, Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom, Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Gems and Tualatin Water and Soil Conservation.
Nearly 500 people attended and the vintageTEK exhibit was packed all night. Volunteers Dave Brown, Bob Haas, and Gary Johnson explained the hands-on exhibits consisting of the 4051, Oscilloscope Table Tennis, Time of Flight, and an Sound Visualization.
This event drew our youngest audience ever with pre-schoolers operating the various instruments.
The 4051 was a big hit as the students could watch the line drawings and understand them as similar to drawing on paper. They learned to measure time on an oscilloscope with our Time of Flight exhibit. Using the microphone they got to explore sounds and envelopes. We had many students circle back around to revisit the booth.
"That's awesome", "incredible", and "Neat comments were heard throughout the event. We also had good conversations with the parents and explained the exhibits, technology, and Tektronix with them.
"Thank you again! Sharing your time and computers with the kids was much appreciated. These chances to engage in hands-on science and engineering can be so inspiring to them."