VOA标准英语2012--Festival Promotes Science as Fun Frontier
时间：2012-04-29 06:31:40
搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号：tingroom，领取免费英语资料大礼包。
（单词翻译）
Festival Promotes Science as Fun Frontier
To these children, it's all fun and games. But the marbles in this so-called "Chaos1 Machine" teach them about physics, gravity and more, says exhibitor Tony Montuori.
"It also teaches kids all kinds of useful skills about debugging, engineering, because you look at the track and you figure out, 'Hey, what's wrong with it? How can I make it better?'" Montuori
noted2.
From robotic cars to wheels on Mars, exhibitors showed everything from human revolutions to a different kind of spin that shows how the body works.
There were robots controlled by
sensors3 on clothes and one controlled by an iPad.
Anousheh Ansari traveled to the International Space Station at her own expense and hopes to inspire students.
"I think this is a wonderful event where they get exposure to different areas of science and can think about some career opportunities, things they can do when they enter the job market," Ansari said.
And there is plenty of interest in NASA's next generation space capsule, the Orion.
"I'm glad to see the whole space program is going on because, I don't know, it seemed to me at least that all was kind of dead, but it's alive and well and looks great," said Fourteen year-old student Andrew Clancy.
And there was a chance to fly an F-16 Fighting
Falcon4 cockpit demonstrator and see drones, robots, robots and more robots.
Daria Jordan of Spelman College showed off the robot she programmed.
"The project name is 'Beyoncebot' and is using a humanoid robot to address childhood obesity," Jordan explained.
Students also got a chance to walk across water, see the air, and feel the air in a hurricane simulator.
They also checked out
observatories5 and observations from a historical figure, Albert Einstein.
Organizers say the goal is to get kids as excited about scientists and engineers as they are about Hollywood
celebrities6 and sports stars.
分享到：
收听单词发音 
