The School of Engineering dominated the museum's parking lot, which was closed to cars for the event. Gabriel Elder (left) demonstrated his robotic hot-air balloon while the IDMARS lab team demo'd their large robot (right rear) and students in Mechanical Engineering offered one of their formula-one race cars.
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Gabe Elder, center foreground, and his father Edward prepare Gabe's hot-air balloon for a test launch despite gusty wind that worsened as the day progressed. Gabe's mother May helped by stabilizing the balloon's top-end tether.
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Robotics team member Robert explains the fine points of some of the IDMARS lab's robot projects.
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The popular laser light show was standing-room only for all eight shows. If you wanted to see its creator, Senior ECE Electronics Tech. Spankey Speis, you had to get in line.
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Rio Rancho High School's Engineering & Design Academy students presented an array of experiences to intrigue young minds on Zoom Into Engineering day.
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Museum staff showed youngsters how to make a lightning bug using a battery, a mini light bulb, and two connectors. ECE's balloons were ubiquitous, even though the department name usually faced away from the camera.
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Sandia National Lab's ice-cream-making process using liquid nitrogen kept the children spellbound.
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By early afternoon almost all of the information, and all of the give-aways, on the UNM table were gone. Here, ECE student Jeremy Wheelis talks with an interested visitor.
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Members of a Boy Scout troop try their hand at directing one of the IDMARS lab robots at Saturday's Zoom Into Engineering event.
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Gabe Elder (left) helped represent ECE at Zoom Into Engineering. Electrical engineering major Jeremy Wheelis (center) talks engineering with an interested visitor.
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