Discovery Days Success

Santosh Pitla (left) and Cara Pesek, Director of IANR Communications (right)
Santosh Pitla (left) and Cara Pesek, Director of IANR Communications (right)

Discovery Days – by all accounts, was a huge success! BSE's booths had groups of people at them pretty much the whole time. The department parked a large tractor in the parking lot too, thanks to Mike Kocher, and it was a huge hit with the kids. Kids were lined up waiting to climb up into the cab almost the whole duration of the event.

A special thanks to:

  • Aaron Mittelstet, Paul Jasa, Alan Boldt, Griff Nuzzo, and Matt Chaffee for the rainfall simulator
  • Yeyin Shi and Team for Drones
  • Nicole Iverson and Wali Sohail, REU student, for UV bead bracelets
  • Andrew Hamann and Angie Pannier for alginate hydrogels
  • Yufeng Ge and Team for the Lego Spidercam Display
  • Mike Kocher for Tractor Display
  • Santosh Pitla and Team for Robots Display
  • Deeapk Keshwani, David Jones, Evan Curtis, Ben Hage, Hyun-Seob Song, and Yijie Xiong for general help with set up, sharing BSE info, take down, photos, weights, etc.

And to everyone else, faculty and volunteers, who helped with Discovery Days!

View more photos from the event, including photos of BSE faculty here.