Justin at STEMapaloozaThe SHArK Team had a booth at the 3rd annual STEMapalooza, a free two-day event that provided an opportunity for students, parents, and teachers to dive into hands-on, “minds-on” activities that included robotics, gaming, rocketry, staging and film production. It also provides an ideal setting for industry leaders to network, engage policy-makers in discussion, and learn more about the latest STEM initiatives throughout Colorado. STEMapalooza, over its two days at the Denver Convention Center, attracted more than 10,000 visitors. The SHArK booth had visits by throngs of young people that were drawn in by the operating LEGO® scanning stations and the green lasers. Bruce Parkinson, Justin Sambur and Craig Markum from the University of Wyoming were joined by Jennifer Schuttlefield, national SHArK coordinator who flew in all the way from Wisconsin, Jim Gaw, a high school teacher and SHArK mentor who drove in from western Colorado, to help explain the project and hand out information to the excited young people and their parents and teachers. Melanie Caton from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provided a photoelectrolysis demonstration and educational materials about the hydrogen economy. The two busy days was the largest public exposure to date for the SHArK Project.

Jim and Craig setting up