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Technology Fair offers exhibits, prizes BOWLING GREEN, O.—Exhibits and prizes will be the order of the day Oct. 21 at Bowling Green State University’s fifth annual
Northwest Ohio Technology Fair.
The fair, set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., will welcome 57 exhibitors, as well as high school students from Delphos to Milan and
even Put-in-Bay, to the Lenhart Grand Ballroom of BGSU’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union.
Among the exhibitors at the free, public event will be 13 new to the fair, including the Indianapolis-based Shoemaker Motion
Picture Co., which will demonstrate the process and equipment for making films.
Wood County Hospital, another first-time exhibitor, will focus on technology in health care, while Bowling Green-based LifeFormations
will return to the fair with its lifelike animatronic figures. Also on hand will be members of the Geek Squad—Best Buy’s in-home
computer service unit.
Three “breakaway sessions” will be held in 201 Union. Among them will be an 11 a.m. demonstration by McGraw-Hill representatives
of the company’s student response system. The system involves student use of touch pads, 50 of which will be available for
an interactive exercise at the fair. The first 50 visitors to the session may participate in the event, which will be recorded
by WBGU-PBS for possible broadcast.
Other breakaway sessions will deal with the Xbox/Linux project, at 10:30 a.m., and computer security, at 1 p.m.
Fostoria radio station WFOB-AM is scheduled to broadcast live from the fair from 10 a.m. until noon, and at 12:30 p.m., students
from around the region will be on hand for the announcement of winners of BGSU’s second annual high school Web design contest.
The number of contest entries jumped from 23 last year to 80—10 in a high school Web page category, 16 in the high school
organization category and 54 entrants who submitted personal Web pages.
The high school with the best Web page will win a $500 cash award, and the top high school organization will receive a Nikon
digital camera. First prize for the best personal Web page will be a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse, while the runner-up
will receive a Logitech Web camera and the third-place finisher, a SanDisk flash drive—a key chain-size data storage unit
that plugs into a computer.
At about 1 p.m., the BGSU student winner of a Dell Latitude X300 laptop computer will be announced. Names of students who
purchased Office Pro for Windows, Office for Macintosh or Windows Professional Upgrade software at discounted prices at the
University Bookstore have been entered in the drawing.
Hourly drawings will also be held for prizes such as a DVD player; 11 flash drives; a digital still camera; three Apple iPods,
and 10 iTunes gift certificates.
“You can’t avoid technology. It’s everywhere you go,” said Kim Fleshman, Technology Fair coordinator and program coordinator
in BGSU’s Student Technology Center. “The Technology Fair displays the ‘latest and greatest’ so you can take advantage of
what’s out there.”
For more information, see http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/studenttech/techfair.
(Posted October 15, 2004 )
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