STEM Expo
Information For Attendees
Wichita State University would like to welcome the general public and especially Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma students in grades 6th through 12th grade to join us on Friday May 19, 2023 to explore multiple aspects of STEM across the WSU campus. We will have events throughout the day from 8am to 3:30pm. We do not require you register your group to attend the STEM Expo; however if you know how many are attending from your group please let us know by filling out this quick form.
Please check in with us on the third floor of Rhatigan Student Center in the ballroom so we know you were here!
Meals
There are multiple locations to enjoy food around campus and the greater Wichita area. On campus we will offer pre purchase tickets for your convenience for multiple meals.
* The Retail location in the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC) tickets will be for a set menu which we will list in Spring 2023.
* Shocker Hall is the dining center in the ground floor of the Shocker Hall dorm. This is an all you care to eat location with multiple dining options.
There are also multiple restaurants in Braeburn Square on the East side of campus and we are planning continue the tradition of WSU to have food trucks around campus. In addition to early tickets, Shocker Hall and the retail location in RSC can be purchased on site, the retail locations will have options beyond the set menu for the meal tickets.
To purchase meal tickets for the retail locations or Shocker Hall please contact Jamie Kraisinger via jamie.kraisinger@compass-usa.com. You will need a school specific copy of your tax exempt status when you order if you are requesting your order be tax exempt.
Friday Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner- Shocker Dining Hall in Shocker Hall; Open 6:30am-7:30pm
* Teams can preorder tickets for a planned menu meal @ $11 per ticket (1 entrance per ticket)
Friday Lunch/Dinner – Retail locations in the RSC; Open 10am – 7pm
* Teams can preorder tickets for a planned menu meal @ $13 per ticket (1 meal per ticket)
Schedule of Events
| Time | Event | Building |
| all day | Chemistry Equipment Exhibit | RSC Cadman Art Gallery |
| all day | Self tour outside art with the Smartify app | campus wide |
| all day | Visit Corbin Education Center ; designed by Frank Lloyd Wright | Corbin Education Center |
| 8:00am – 3:30pm | Exhibit Hall open | RSC Ballrooms |
| 9:00am-10:00am | Science themed “minute to win it” w/ Chemistry Department | RSC 301, 313, 314, 319 |
| 9:00am-10:30am | Forensics Lab Tours (open house) (ALS, bloodstain analysis, etc.) | Law Enforcement Training Center First Floor Lobby |
| 9:00am-1:00pm | Cosmosphere Morse Code Activity | RSC 266 |
| 9:00am – 3:45 pm | SONT Trial Event Solar Power (SONT scheduled teams only) | WO134 and WO135 |
| 9:00am – 5pm | Pizza Hut Museum (self tour) | Pizza Hut Museum |
| 9:30am-11:30am | GAFL Flight Simulation | Beggs Hall |
| 9:30am-3:00pm | Generation STEAM: Paint the surround canvas for Generation STEAM’s shipping container | JBC lobby |
| 9:30am-3:00pm | Shipping Container Example from Sitebox | Food Truck Plaza |
| 9:30am-5pm | GoCreate: Every 30 minutes GoCreate will have a tour of their facility | JBC west side |
| 10:00am-10:20am | Research talk titled: Big Data in Election Science by Brian Amos | RSC 262 |
| 10:00a,-11:00am | Science themed “minute to win it” w/ Chemistry Department | RSC 301, 313, 314, 319 |
| 10:00am-11:30am | Campus Walking Tour | Admissions Table RSC Ballroom |
| 10:00am-3:00pm | Anthropology Museum (self tour) | Neff Hall ground level |
| 10:00am | “Infectious Disease Investigation” w/ Chemistry Department | MC 224 |
| 10:00am – 10:45 | Textron Aviation Leadership Q & A | RSC 265 |
| 10:00am – 3:30pm | SONT Trial Event Robot Tour (viewers welcome) | Woolsey Lobby/Atrium |
| 10:30am – 3:00pm | SONT Trial Event Ag Science B (SONT scheduled teams only) | WO110A |
| 10:30am – 3:00pm | SONT Trial Event Ag Science C (SONT scheduled teams only) | WO110B |
| 11:00am-12:30pm | Forensics Lab Tours (open house) (ALS, bloodstain analysis, etc.) | Law Enforcement Training Center First Floor Lobby |
| 11:00am – 3:00pm | SONT Trial Event WICI B (SONT scheduled teams only) | WO 220, 225, 226 |
| 11:00am – 5:00pm | Ulrich Art Museum (self tour) | Ulrich Museum of Art |
| Noon | Textron Aviation K-12 presentation | RSC 265 |
| Noon | Liquid Nitrogen party w/ Chemistry Department (w/ ice cream) | front of MC |
| Noon – 3:00pm | SONT Trial Event WICI C (SONT scheduled teams only) | WO 319, 322, 323 |
| 1:00pm-1:25pm | Research talk titled: Mathematics in Cancer Treatment by Ehsan Salari | RSC 262 |
| 1:00pm – 3:00pm | GAFL Flight Simulation | Beggs Hall |
| 1:00pm – 3:00pm | The Spin Lab (Condensed Matter Lab) open house | Jabara Hall 032 |
| 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Particle Physics Lab open house | Jabara Hall 040 |
| 1:00pm-3:30pm | Wind Tunnel Lab Tours | Between Beggs Hall and NIAR |
| 1:00pm-3:30pm | Reverse Additive Manufacturing/Engineering Lab Tours | JBC 159 |
| 1:00pm-3:30pm | Advanced Virtual Engineering & Testing Lab Tours | Jerry Moran Center |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Forensics Lab Tours (open house) (ALS, bloodstain analysis, etc.) | Law Enforcement Training Center First Floor Lobby |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Open DIY ChemisTRY lab w/ Chemistry Department | MC 229 |
| 2:00pm-2:20pm | Research talk titled: Big Data in Election Science by Brian Amos | RSC 262 |
| 2:00pm-3:30pm | Campus Walking Tour | Admissions Table RSC Ballroom |
| 2:00pm – 2:45pm | Textron Aviation Career Q & A | RSC 265 |