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BGSU Technology Fair is a northwest Ohio affair BOWLING GREEN, O. — With high school-student visitors expected from Sylvania to Wapakoneta and from Milan to Antwerp, Bowling
Green State University’s Northwest Ohio Technology Fair will live up to its name.
The fair, set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, will also welcome more than 60 exhibitors—the most in its four-year
history—to the Lenhart Grand Ballroom of BGSU’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union.
Dr. Duane Whitmire, director of the Student Technology Center at BGSU, called the free event “the University’s way to give
back to northwest Ohio.” Highlights will include displays of new technical media, as well as special presentations and drawings
for technology-oriented prizes.
WFOB-AM, a radio station serving Fostoria and Bowling Green, is scheduled to broadcast live from the fair from 10 a.m. until
noon. At 12:30 p.m., students from around the region will be on hand for the announcement of winners of BGSU’s first high
school Web design contest. A combined 23 entries were judged in three categories: best high school Web page, which carries
a $500 cash award; top Web page for a high school organization, with the winning entrant receiving a Canon digital camera,
and best personal Web page, whose designer will take home a Palm Zire, a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA).
The fair involves “more than the computer sitting on your desk,” said Kim Fleshman, program coordinator at the Student Technology
Center and coordinator of the fair, citing planned demonstrations by Wood County Hospital representatives who will discuss
the technology of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-rays and computerized axial tomography (CAT) scans.
Another example is a presentation by Cedar Point staff, who will explain the making of a roller coaster. The Cedar Point presentation,
from 10-11 a.m., is the first of six breakaway sessions during the day. Others will include demonstrations of digital video
as a teaching tool, from 12:30-1:30 p.m., and of Internet2 capabilities, from 2:30-4 p.m.
In addition to Cedar Point, other first-time exhibitors at the fair include the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), which
will have a robotics-related display; the city of Bowling Green, with a display on its turbine windmill project, and Granville
Middle School in central Ohio. Granville students will demonstrate their work in the PhotoShop software program and three-dimensional
animation.
Drawings will be held hourly for prizes such as an Apple iPod, a headset player for music off the Web; a Dell Axim, a handheld
PDA; a Web camera; computer speakers; a DVD player, and a Jump Drive, a key chain-size data storage unit that plugs into a
computer.
For more details, log on to www.bgsu.edu/offices/studenttech/techfair.
(Posted October 14, 2003 )
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