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100 Years of Science Conference

Event Date/Time

Sep 29, 2012
9:00 am until 3:00 pm

Description

Girls attending will work with student volunteers from Stevens’ Society of Women Engineers and Girl Scout Adult Volunteers to gain hands-on experience through alternative energy experiments (e.g., examining a small wind turbine, testing turbine blades, designing, constructin,g and testing simple photovoltaic systems, solar water heaters, and many additional Green Energy Projects.) The daylong event will feature keynote speaker Pamela Conrad, an astrobiologist and mineralogist with the Planetary Environments Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Cost $25/girls, $15/adults
Location

Stevens Institute of Technology
9th Street
Hoboken, NJ
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Additional Information
SponsorGirl Scouts Heart of New Jersey
Phone973-842-4224
Contact nameChristina DeSalva
Contact emailcdesalva@gshnj.org
Websitehttp://bit.ly/100yearsofscience
Ages: girls ages 12-14 and adult chaperones
Admission: Registration required
County: Hudson
W-O (in-house use only): No
OTS (in-house use only): No

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