OPP Volunteers at the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo

April 9, 2018

National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230

OPP volunteers helped bring a little of the polar regions to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on April 7th and 8th, 2018 at the 5th USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo.

The two-day Expo included 3,000 hands-on exhibits from the world's leading scientific and engineering societies, universities, government agencies, high-tech corporations and STEM organizations.

In the slide show, a Scott Tent was set up in the exhibition hall as part of the OPP display; Jenny Cunningham, with Colorado-based ASC, NSF's logistics contractor, helps a visitor try on a "Big Red", the parka issued to U.S. Antarctic Program participants; volunteer Nick Schulte, of the University of Colorado, shows a sample of algae to visitors; Kate Ruck talks to a festival participant while Wilson Sauthoff, also an OPP volunteer, reads to children in the reading corner; and Josh Darling, also of the University of Colorado, interacts with children in front of the Scott tent.