Atomic Expo: Power Your Future!

Name: Atomic Expo: Power Your Future!
Start: 2024-10-22T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-22T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Oak Ridge High School

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 04:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Oak Ridge High School | Oak Ridge, TN

In coordination with the Oak Ridge Chamber, ORNL, AMSE, and other community partners Oak Ridge Schools will celebrate Nuclear Science Week, October 21-25. Oak Ridge Schools is hosting the Atomic Expo: Power Your Future! on Tuesday, October 22nd. This event will offer activities for all students and families to explore a variety of opportunities related to the nuclear workforce in our area.
ORNL will set up their traveling science fair, interactive trailers, in the parking lot of the high school. Students in 8th grade from Jefferson and Robertsville will visit during the school day, and classes from the high school have been invited to visit from 8-9:15 am or 2-3pm.
The community, all students and their families, are invited to attend the Atomic Expo: Power Your Future! between 4:30-6:45pm at Oak Ridge High School. In addition to the ORNL traveling science fair, interactive trailers, the American Museum of Science and Energy will be outside for fun, scientific demonstrations,
and food trucks will be parked in front of the high school entrance to sell a variety of options for dinner or snacks. Families are encouraged to step inside the high school food court to visit a wide variety of science exhibits, student organization demonstrations, tours of ORHS programs within iSchool, nuclear
workforce post-secondary opportunity pathways, and nuclear workforce partners in the Oak Ridge area. At 7pm the community is invited into the Performing Arts Center at the high school to hear directly from current students and recent ORHS graduates on how their experiences in Oak Ridge Schools are Powering Your Future! There will also be a special presentation by ORNL to close the evening by 7:30pm.