Welcome to the launch pad for the second annual Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair. As a celebration grounded in SHTEAM (Science, History, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math), we are on the flight path of discovery, inviting creatives of all ages to share their work and join the celebration.
It’s time to unleash your inner mad scientist! Share your grand experiments, proof of concepts, data visualizations, creative firestorms, optical illusions, gizmos, gadgets, and everything in between. Are you a musician, circular fashionista, a disrupter maker, a vendor of wonder? Join the fun and blow our minds with your creative genius.
This year we’ve added more categories, creating more opportunities for you to participate. To learn more, please explore the Science Fair drop-down menu in the navigation bar to find your niche and to access everything you need to get started—project guides, registration forms, and sponsorship options.
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Last year, our special spotlight focused on the circular economy, creative reuse, and the built environment. This year, we've broadened our scope to include system change:
EVERY ACT OF DESTRUCTION IS AN ACT OF CREATION
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Our current system is a dirty machine, its gears are grinding relentlessly. It has served its purpose well, bringing into the world an industrial landscape rich in its ability to convert natural resources into all the goods, gear, and gadgets fueling the demands of modern consumer culture.
However, the current system is failing us. It is outdated, inefficient, and incapable of solving the challenges it has created for Life on Earth: industrial pollution, over-production, rising CO2 levels, global warming, ecosystem collapse, species extinction, growing inequalities, and global conflicts are just some of the challenges confronting us today as a species. To adapt we must find co-creative ways to dismantle the old system to make room for the new.
As artists, builders, inventors, and engineers you see the flaws in our current system. Motivated by the next great Industrial Revolution, you are more determined than ever to create something new, something better. You’ve spent countless hours thinking, tinkering in your workshops, and experimenting with new materials and methodologies, while remaining committed to the tried and true. Finally, you’ve had a breakthrough—you have designed a new system, a new process, a new mechanism that makes the existing one obsolete. Now it's time to bring your ideas and inventions into the shared arena of the Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair where others that share your passion for ingenuity and disruptive innovation are gathering.
