The University of Auburn and the I-Stem Connectory has welcomed the Alabama 2025 engineering fair on Saturday 5 April. The event took place at the Auburn class and laboratory academic complex from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and was coordinated by the College of Sciences and Mathematics Office Office.
Various academic organizations and businesses have been presented in a number of views, information tables and interactive activities. ASEF Junior and high school science competitions also took place during the event.
ASEF is an official annual event held in Alabama as an affiliation fair for the International Regeneron Science and Engineering Fair. Regeneron ISEF is the largest international pre-university science competition and sees millions of students around the world contribute each year. ASEF is a qualification event for Alabama and is organized by the University of Auburn, welcoming primary by high school students.
At the ASEF of this year, the winners of the preliminary scientific fairs of four regions of Alabama participated in the senior division (9th in the 12th year) or in the junior division (6th in the 8th year). Judging for the two divisions took place in several laps before the STEM exhibition, with projects open to the vision of the public thereafter. The winners of the rounds were announced later during the day at the end of the event.
From 1:30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., the ACLC atrium welcomed the 2025 STEM Exo in ASEF. During this event, many organizations in the academic world, industry and business were present with displays, information tables and interactive activities. The event is used to highlight the wide varieties of STEM programs and careers present in Alabama to students in primary school. Participants also had the opportunity to hear many people working in the Stem field talking about their career areas on the first floor of ACLC.
The exhibitions at the exhibition included interactive events for quality students, such as optical demonstrations and van of Gaaff, pipette art, plasma ball and tesla coil support, paper manufacturing and exploration of flowers with microscopes. Several tables from the University of Auburn and the University of Alabama were available for students to realize the programs and potential college opportunities. Scouts in southern Alabama were also present at the event, as is the Auburn museum of natural history.
A number of companies were also present and organized various events for students. The companies present included a data literacy platform and APTAR CSP Technologies, a hardware technology company.
Madison Pipkin, project manager at Aptar CSP, spoke of the company and its polymer display at the exhibition.
“We are a material of material sciences whose head office is based in Alabama, and I like to say that we put chemistry in polymers,” said Pipkin. “They absorb humidity, oxygen and any other volatile organic compound. We incorporate chemistry into polymers, which helps protect the products of our customers (…) We incorporate them into different products, such as nasal sprays and diabetes test strips. It is in a way that we are, in one word to the other! ”
Also at the event were members of the Auburn Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Dianna Forbes, professor and researcher in chemistry and biochemistry, spoke of her involvement during the event.
“This is the second time that I have been exhibiting, and they are always really great. It is wonderful to see the participation this year, students who speak to more students and see who is interested in chemistry,” said Forbes. “From the STEM exhibition, it goes a lot from what you can withdraw from it. There are tables with really cool demos where you can get interactions with practical sciences and engineering; we give information, we are talking about what we do and what the student’s future can be chemistry. I hope students will get information and get out of it.”
After the end of the exhibition, the Auburn scientific film festival took place on the lower floor of the ACLC for the last ASEF event. Here, students from primary and collegial school levels have been encouraged to submit short films highlighting science -related subjects before the event. During the festival, selected films were shown, including educational films, research videos and experimental explanations. The winning films of the Festival would receive prices and certificates in cash.
The results deemed of the ASEF competition were announced at the end of the event, after the festival. Winning projects can be found here.
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