Students gets their pictures taken with thermal imaging used by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona during the Science and Technology Education Partnership Conference in Riverside. Bourns Inc. hosts the annual event to get students excited about science and technology.
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After trying robotic vehicles that roll around a track and pick up objects, seventh-grader Chase Ochoa was impressed.
Chase, who attends Mesa View Middle School in Calimesa, was among about 4,500 Inland students visiting the the two-day Science and Technology Education Partnership Conference in Riverside, where students tried their hands at science and technology activities offered by more than three dozen exhibitors at Bourns Inc.
The 15th annual conference, which ended Wednesday, featured a science show by General Atomics of San Diego. The Discovery Zone activities from colleges, schools and high-tech businesses spilled into the parking lot for the first time. Medical to green screen video technology were on display.
'It was amazing to watch,' Chase said about the robots built by engineering students in Project Lead the Way at King High School in Riverside. 'We have a robotics program at our school, but nothing like that.'
The high school students' robots do more than the ones his class builds from kits, he said.
Nearby, Owen White, a fifth-grader at Riverside STEM Academy, manipulated an underwater robotic vehicle in an attempt to pick up washers from the bottom of a large inflated pool.
'It was really cool - and a little confusing,' Owen said.
That robot is part of a curriculum the U.S. Navy developed to teach students about science, technology, engineering and mathematics applications, said Troy Clarke, public affairs officer for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona, which is in Norco.
Thermal imaging and air drones were an even bigger hit with students, he said.
The activities and displays help students see real-world applications for science and technology - and open their eyes to the possibility of good-paying jobs, Clarke said. The top 10 best-paying jobs are all in science, technology, engineering or math, according to payscale.com. Clarke said the Navy base is the Inland area's largest employer of scientists and engineers.
Capturing students' interest in science and math and inspiring them to study science and math is the annual conference's goal, partnership President John Fischell said.
'They need a foundation' in math and science by the time they start high school, Fischell said. 'Unless they're jazzed about it, they won't get it.'
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