Abbott Vascular

1. What is the difference in the following treatments:  Angioplasty, Stent implant, Atherectomy, by-pass surgery?

2. When using stents, what is the issue around stenosis and re-stenosis?

3. What are the current medical debates on using bare metal stents and drug coated stents?

4. When can a coronary blockage result in myocardial infarction?

5. When a physician uses an interventional technique such as a stent implant, how long is a patient typically in the hospital for the treatment?

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc./Schumacher

Questions and Answers:

1. What is Nitrogen?
   
   
2. What is Liquid Nitrogen?
   
   
3. What are Liquid Nitrogen effects and how do they work?
   
   
4. What are the health and safety concerns of Liquid Nitrogen effects?

Amylin Pharmaceutical

1. What is insulin?

2. What is the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?

3. What is exendin?

AT&T

1. Other than face to face, list 3 ways people communicate with one another.

2. List 3 ways IP Television differs from traditional cable and satellite TV.

3. List 3 key features of AT&T's new "Homezone" entertainment technology.

BioCom

BIOCOM Questions:

1. What is biotechnology?
   
   
2. What does the term "forensic" mean?
   
   
3. What is a DNA fingerprint?
   
   
4. Humans have how many total chromosomes?
   
   
5. What is a living wage in San Diego? 
   
   
6. What are the top 3 growing fields in San Diego?
   
   
7. What does LSSI stand for?A: Life Sciences Summer Institute
   
   
8. What 3 things do you learn during LSSI Biotech “Boot Camp”?
   
   
9. What is the San Diego Workforce Partnership's website?
   
   
10. What are three fields you are interested in as a career?
    
    
11. What are two things you should avoid when dressing for an interview?

BAE Systems

Answers to the questions are accessible via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and of course, our booth.

Click here for Photogrammetric Problem #1: Monoscopic Earth Intersection

5 questions:

1. What is Photogrammetry?

2. What is Remote Sensing?

3. How is math (e.g. geometry) important to remote sensing and photogrammetry?

4. What is computer simulation?

5. What are some ways computer simulation can be used?

Biosite

1. List three ways science can benefit from engineering at a biotechnology company?

2. What are the names of the devices (manual and automated) that scientists use to transfer small amounts of liquid?

3. What are potential sources of error in data collection from a balance and how are these addressed?

Botball

1. What does autonomous robot mean?
   
   
2. What does KISS stand for?
   
   
3. What does STEM stand for?
   
   
4. Why is robotics education important?
   
   
5. What programming language do Botball robot programmers use?
   
   
6. If you were a part of a Botball Robot Team, would you rather be abuilder, documenter, or programmer? Why?
   
   
7. How does math and science play a role in robotics?
   
   
8. How do real scientists & engineers use language arts' skills, such as, writing, research, or documentation?

Center for Theoretical Biological Physics - UCSD

1. Do cells communicate with each other ?

2. If so, how ?

3. Can the same cells that normally exist as single-celled organisms get together to form a multicellular organism ?

4. Can we mathematically model cellular behavoir ?

5. How does physics and chemistry govern the biological activity of cells and organisms ?

City of Los Angeles/WEF; EcoCenter for
Alternative Fuel Education

1. What are the main stages of Wastewater treatment?
   
   
2. What is pH?
   
   
3. What is Turbidity?
   
   
4. Why is the ammonia content important and how is it reduced in a wastewater
   treatment plant?
   
   
5. What are biosolids, and how can be used?

County of San Diego Department of Public Works Watershed Protection Program

1. What type of pollutants might be found in surface and ground water? 
   
   
2. What are some of the potential sources and pathways for these pollutants to enter our waterways?
   
   
3. What is water quality monitoring?
   
   
4. Why is water quality monitoring important?
   
   
5. What are real-time water quality monitors?
   
   
6. Why do you need to know stream flow?
   
   
7. How can you measure flow?

Conservation and Research for
Endangered Species (CRES)

1. Why might conservation biologists seek to maximize genetic diversity in small populations, as is often the case with endangered species?
   
   
2. In what ways do animals communicate with one another, and why is studying animal communication important for conservation?
   
   
3. Why might techniques in artificial insemination be important for endangered species conservation?
   
   
4. How is the theory of evolution by natural selection relevant to endangered species conservation?
   
   
5. Why might conservation scientists want to bank or cryopreserve bioresources such as cells, seeds, and germplasm?
   
6. What is the value of biodiversity?

DEA Southwest Laboratory

1. What does the term "forensics" mean as it relates to chemistry and science?

2. Why is it important for Forensic Chemists to be able to put complex scientific explanations into simple, easy to understand terms?

3. How do the definitions of possession and manufacturing differ when it comes to forensic drug chemistry?

Dynamic/Hardy Instruments

Questions: 

1. Identify several unique technologies, science or math applications that can be demonstrated, explained or manipulated for student observers:
   
   
2. How is an algorithm used to ignore the vibration found on a plant floor, to deliver accurate weight every time?
   
   
3. Name three different ways, in an industrial setting, weight information is captured.
   
   
4. Hershey’s Chocolate, M&M Mars, Starbuck’s Coffee, Frito Lays all use our weight controllers in their process.  What does that mean to the candy I enjoy, the coffee I drink and the chips I munch?  What other well known brands use Hardy products

EcoCenter for Alternative Fuel Education

1. What is the formula for making hydrogen useful?

2. What comes out of the tailpipe of a hydrogen car? What comes out of the tail pipe of a gasoline car?

3. What can bio-diesel be made from?

Electramotive Computers

1. What are the individual points of light dots called that combine to make the entire computer-generated image?  (Pixels)
   
   
2. What does the acronym CAD represent  (Computer Aided Drafting or Design)
   
   
3. What does the phrase, “computer platform” mean?.  (The phrase, “Computer Platform” refers to the type of operating system a computer uses.  Windows NT/2000, and /OS X used by Macintosh computers are examples of operating systems.
   
   
4. What do you call the process that takes a model in the computer and makes it look like a photo of something real?  (Photo-realistic Rendering)

FIRST Robotics / The Preuss School

1. What is the primary goal of FIRST?

2. How can I start a team at my school?

3. What is the difference between being teleoperated and autonomous?

Geocon Incorporated

1. Where is the Rose Canyon Fault Zone (this is the only active fault in the City of San Diego)?

2. What is soil liquefaction?

3. How were Shelter Island and Harbor Island built? Air photos from 1929 show these area as being underwater in San Diego Bay.

General Atomics Energy Group

1. Where does the energy used by you and your family in your home originate?

2. How is infrared radiation similar to visible radiation (light)?

3. How can fusion be used as an energy resource on earth?

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- San Diego Section

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ITV/Cable 16 - SDCOE

1.  What year has the FCC mandated that all Broadcast Television stations be transitioned from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting?

2.  What are the differences between an analog TV signal and a digital TV signal?   What do HD and SD stand for?

3.  What are some of the inherent problems that broadcasters are encountering in this transition from analog to digital?  How do they show up on your home TV?

4.  If you shot an arrow at a target and captured the event on two cameras, one digital and one analog, on which picture (the analog TV or the digital TV) would the arrow hit first?  Why?

5. Can you name 3 digital audio formats?  What format is by your (Apple) iPOD?

6.  What does the acronym MPEG stand for?

7.  In the world of transmitting picture and voice, what is the biggest advantage that digital signals have over analog?

Kyocera

1. What is a ceramic electronic package? What's its function? Purpose?

2. Why is ceramic a good material for Kyocera's electronic packages?

3. What are two high-tech industries that Kyocera America supports?

4. Name 5 KAI customers.

Microsoft TV

1. What Microsoft technology is AT&T using to run their U-verse service?

2. Name 3 things that Windows Vista enables you to do in your digital living room?

3. Name 3 devices in your digital home that might be running Microsoft software?

for answers to these questions, please visit http://www.microsoft.com

National Park Service

Connecting Scientists with Parks and Science with People

1)  Can you name three National Park sites in California? Have you visited any National Parks in California or elsewhere?

2) Who owns the National Parks?

3) The National Parks contain unparalleled opportunities for research and education in some of our nation’s most cherished and pristine sites. What kind of research do you think is needed to preserve your parks? 

4) How would you collect this kind of information at remote locations in the parks?  What technologies would you employ?

5) How would you convey the information you collected at these remote sites to the American public?

6) What might you do to encourage young people to visit, study or consider working in the national parks?

NAVAIR

1. What is the difference between Metrology and Meteorology?

2. Who is NIST?

3. In the study of measurements, what is accuracy and what is precision? Are they the same?

4. What is a cubit? What was the penalty for not having it calibrated once a year?

5. What frequency does a microwave oven use and why?

Northrop Grumman

1: What is a software-defined radio?

2: What do radios receive and transmit?

3: Why are stealth aircraft the way they are?

4: What are two ways of avoiding radar from detecting your location?

5: What is an autonomous air vehicle?

6: How is that different than a remote-controlled air vehicle?

7: What is the benefit of having an autonomous air vehicle?

San Diego County Fair

1. What is the Name of the EXHIBIT that students from San Diego Schools can enter their school projects?
   
   
2. Where do I find more information on entering my work at the San Diego County Fair?

San Diego Mesa College

Question: When an ice skater spins around on one skate, how does he/she change their rate of rotation? What physical principle does the skater rely on?

Question: Why does the sky appear blue during the day? Why does the sky appear red at sunrise or sunset?

BIOLOGY

Question: What part of the flower does fruit come from?

Question: What is the value of flowers and fruit to the plant?

Homework Assignment
Review flowering plant reproduction.

CHEMISTRY
Description
Your skin is an excellent detector of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. When you expose bare skin to sunlight, your skin will either turn brown (a suntan) or red (a sunburn). These responses by your skin are a signal that the cells under your skin are being assaulted by UV radiation. UV radiation wavelengths are short enough to break chemical bonds in your skin tissue and over prolonged exposure, your skin may wrinkle or skin cancer may appear. There is a safer way to detect UV--by using UV beads. These plastic beads contain a chemical which changes color when exposed to UV radiation. The colors that develop depend on the wavelength of the UV radiation.

Learning Objectives
a. Place a selection of UV beads near a fluorescent light. Do any of the beads change color? Can you get a sunburn or a tan by sitting next to a fluorescent light?
b. When, during the day do the beads change fastest and to their richest color?
c. Place the beads behind the lens of an eyeglass. How can you use UV beads to tell whether eyeglasses have a UV protective coating?
Questions
a. What are UV-A, UV_B, UV-C rays? Which radiation has the most energy?
b. How can you use UV beads to tell whether eyeglasses have a UV protective coating?
c. How can you use UV beads to tell the effectiveness of sunblock?

Homework Assignment
a. Study the different forms of electromagnetic radiation. What are examples of radiant energy?
b. Rank the following form of electromagnetic radiation from higher energy to lowest energy. Gamma rays, heat, microwaves, radio/television signals, cosmic rays, X-rays, visible red light, visible green light, visible blue light, ultraviolet light.

San Diego Police Department

1. Can Police Departments, Sheriffs, and Fire Departments communicate with each other in event that there is a disaster?

2. What needs to be done so these agencies can communicate with each other.

3. What is being done nationwide to improve the communication between public safety from state to state.

San Diego Miramar College

1. How many chromosomes do you have?

2. Where did they come from?

3. How much does it cost to attend a California Community College

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

1. Name three ways radiation is used safely in our society.

2. Name three sources of natural radiation.

3. Name three barriers to the release of radioactivity in a nuclear power plant.

Scripps Mercy Hospital

1.  Describe how digital computerization has impacted healthcare in viewing tissues and body parts?

2.  State what benefits can be expected with highdefinition video to assist in the diagnosis of the patient?

3.  Describe how cell phones can benefit both the healthcare workers and the patient in the hospital setting? 

Scripps Research Institute

1. How can we use the information about the molecular structures of biological molecules?
   
   
2. Place these biological objects in order of size, from smallest to largest: a)  a virus; b) a red blood cell; c) a sugar molecule; d) a bacteria; e) a protein molecule
   
   
3. What experimental methods allow us to see biological molecules?
   
   
4. If you stretched out the DNA in one of your cells into a straight line, how long would it be? (Hint human DNA has about 3 billion nucleotide bases.
   
   
5. True of false a virus is a living thing?

Solar Turbines Incorporated

1.  Does Solar Turbines create solar power?

2.  What are some uses for Solar's turbines?

3.  How does a gas turbine work?

Surfrider Foundation

1. What is the #1 pollution threat to the ocean off San Diego County?

2. Why do people litter and pollute?

3. What effect does litter and pollution have on marine life?

Tripoli San Diego Rocketry Club

1. What is Newton's third law and how does it pertain to rockets?

2. Describe what keeps a rocket going straight in flight and why.

3. In history, name three people that have made significant contributions to the advancement of rocketry.

USD Engineering

1. Name 3 subjects you should take in high school if you want to be an engineer.
   
   
2. Name 3 reasons for choosing to go to USD to major in engineering.
   
   
3. Where can you get food quicker-McDonald’s or Wendy’s?
   
   
4. Name sections of a cell phone that an electrical engineer works on, an industrial engineering works on, and a mechanical engineer works on.
   
   
5. Name the types of engineering that you could major in at USD.