WSST Conference 2012 - Science on the Terrace and Beyond

March 8-10, Madison

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Thursday AM
9:30 – 12:30 F-1 PROMEGA and the BTC Institute (MS, HS)

Thursday PM
12:00 – 3:00 F-2 Placon Corporation (MS, HS)
12:00 – 3:00 F-3 Thermo Fisher Scientific (MS, HS)
12:15 – 3:00 F-4 UW College of Engineering (All)
12:15 – 3:00 F-5 Urban Nature Tour (All)
12:15 – 3:00 F-6 UW Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (MS, HS)

Friday AM
8:30 – 11:30 F-7 UW Tour - WID, Geology, and Physics (All)
8:30 – 11:30 F-8 UW Biotech, State Lab of Hygiene, and UW Zoology Museum (All)
10:00–11:45  F-9 Madison Children’s Museum (Elementary)
10:30 – 3:30 F-10 Grapes, Hops, and Rocks (All)

Friday PM
1:00 – 3:00  F-11 Henry Vilas Zoo (Elementary)
1:00 – 3:00  F-12 Sustainability Tour (All)

F-1
Bioluminescence Field Trip at the BTC Institute & Promega Tour (MS, HS)

Thursday 9:30- 12:30pm
Limit: 20 Cost: $10

The BTC Institute offers Biotechnology Field Trips to middle and high school students and their teachers. Designed as a 1.5 - 5 hour visit to the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, field trip experiences include hands-on laboratory experiments based on molecular biology techniques and, for high school students, an optional tour of Promega's production facilities.  For this WSST conference field trip, participants will perform a bioluminescence genetic transformation of the luciferase gene into E. coli.   After the lab activity participants will take a tour of Promega's production facility. www.btci.org

PROMEGA was founded in 1978, what started as the production of enzymes for researchers has evolved to offering over 2,000 products for a broad array of applications including basic research, drug discovery, forensics and paternity testing, and hospital and clinic-based diagnostic.
www.promega.com

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F-2
Placon Corporation

Thursday 12:00 – 3:00pm
Limit: 20 Cost: $10

Placon Corporation, one of the first thermoforming companies in the food and consumer packaging industry to implement its own in-house recycling to process post-consumer bottles as well as thermoforms. Placon is one of the nation's leading thermoformed packaging resources in the food, consumer packaged retail, and medical device markets. With more than four decades of packaging expertise.
www.placon.com

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F-3
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thursday 12:00 – 3:00pm
Limit: 20 Cost: $10

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions.
www.thermofisher.com

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F-4
UW College of Engineering (All)

Thursday 12:15 – 3:00pm
No Limit Cost: $10

The UW-Madison College of Engineering is among the nation's top colleges of engineering. It consists of eight degree-granting departments—biomedical engineering, chemical and biological engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, engineering physics, industrial and systems engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. Its ninth department, engineering professional development, is one of the nation's oldest and largest continuing education programs for professional engineers.
www.engr.wisc.edu

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F-5
Urban Nature Tour: Olbrich Gardens and Aldo Leopold Nature Center

Thursday 12:15 – 3:00pm
Limit: 30 Cost: $10

Olbrich Botanical Gardens: A 15 minutes presentation followed by a stroll of the 16 acres of outdoor gardens featuring stunning landscapes and Midwest-hardy plants. Visit the tropics in the Bolz Conservatory and its Rainforest exhibit.
www.olbrich.org

Aldo Leopold Nature Center. The mission of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center is to "...teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands." in the spirit of famed Wisconsin conservationist, Aldo Leopold. NEW addition, designed to teach children, their families and teachers about climate science, renewable energy and sustainability, is nearly complete and will be piloted to school groups this fall.
www.naturenet.com/alnc/

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F-6
UW-Madison Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GBRC)

Thursday 12:15 – 3:00pm
Limit: 12 person per group Cost: $10

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. Education and Outreach area supports and collaborates on a diverse array of programs, which complement our mission and goals. These programs mainly address the needs of K-12 and undergraduate learning communities, and topically address bioenergy-related issues ranging from biotechnology to sustainability.

www.glbrc.org

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F-7
UW Tour: WID, Geology, and Physics (All)

Friday 8:30-11:30
No Limit: Cost: $10

Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. The WID is part of UW–Madison organized under its Graduate School. The state-of-the-art facility brings together scientists and researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines, such as the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, business and law. It also includes extensive public spaces in its Town Center intended to promote dialogue as a fertile crossroads for ideas among diverse parts of UW–Madison and the larger community.
 www.wid.wisc.edu

The Geology Museum. Tours are approximately one hour long and feature hundreds of rock and mineral specimens, a black light mineral display and skeletons from dinosaurs and Ice Age animals.
www.geology.wisc.edu/museum

UW Physics Museum. Welcome to the L.R. Ingersoll Museum! Established in 1918. Our exhibits give you a "hands-on" experience of physical concepts ranging from mechanics to modern physics in a demonstrational kid-friendly environment. In conjunction to our museum, you will find historical instruments and photos of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics from 1901-1993 on display along the corridors.
www.physics.wisc.edu

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F-8
UW Biotech, State Lab of Hygiene, and UW Zoological Museum Tour (All)

Friday 8:30-11:30 am
Limit: 12 per group Cost: $10

Genetic/Biotech. The mission of the UW Biotechnology Center is to maximize the benefits of biotechnology to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin System, state and nation by being an excellent quality, comprehensive, multidisciplinary biotechnology center that supports, coordinates, disseminates and advances biotechnology.  BioTrek is the Science Outreach Program of UWBC and of UW Extension with the goal of engaging the public by providing tours and workshops on campus and workshops anywhere in Wisconsin.
www.biotech.wisc.edu

State Lab of Hygiene. “Everyday working in the lab to protect YOU” We provide Clinical, Water and Other Environmental, & Industrial Hygiene analytical services, specialized public health procedures, reference testing, training, technical assistance and consultation for private and public health agencies. In addition we are part of the UW-Madison through which we perform research and instruction related to public and environmental health protection.
www.slh.wisc.edu

University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum (UWZM).  UWZM provides support for research and teaching within the Department of Zoology, throughout the state and region, and nationally and internationally by collecting, curating, and managing scientific collections.  The UWZM serves as a state and federal repository for endangered and threatened species and is also one of the depositories for the Henry Vilas and Milwaukee County Zoos.

The museum contains over 500,000 specimens.  Collections include mammal and bird study skins and mounts, bird eggs and nests, and the H.W. Mossman histological collection; osteological assemblages representing all vertebrate classes, including thousands of specimens from the Galapagos Islands; alcohol-preserved specimens including fishes, amphibians, reptiles and the W.B. Quay collection of fluid mammals; modern and archaeological mollusks and snails; plankton collected by the Center for Limnology as part of the Long-term Ecologcical Research (LTER) project; paleontological specimens; historical objects and scientific instruments; and a research library of books, monographs and reprints.
www.zoology.wisc.edu/uwzm/

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F-9
Madison Children’s Museum (Elementary)

Friday 10:00-11:45 am
No Limit Cost: $10

Madison Children’s Museum is an award-winning destination for fun family activities and hands-on learning! There will be a short presentation to highlight how STEM is imbedded within every exhibit. You will have an opportunity to visit our inventive city of Possible-opolis for ages 6 and up, and our four-season Rooftop Ramble, with animals and gardens. Kids under 5 have a place of their own in the Wilderness, a global village made with natural, local materials.
www.madisonchildrensmuseum.org

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F-10
Grapes, Hops and Rocks Tour to Mt. Horeb (All)

Friday 10:00 – 3:30 pm
No Limit Cost: $10

Fisher King Winery to share his chemistry connections in wine production.
www.fisherkingwinery.com

The Grumpy Troll brew master also welcomes visitors to his facility, although it is small. Visitors can enjoy samples of different brews and appetizers for a fee. This would be a perfect place for lunch; they also have great pizza.
www.thegrumpytroll.com

Wisconsin Geological Survey Core Repository (in Mt Horeb. This is Wisconsin’s repository for core and rock samples. The Research Collections and Education Center—houses a variety of carefully organized and maintained earth-science materials. These collections are essential to improving our scientific understanding of the geology and natural resources of the state of Wisconsin. To date, the repository hold
www.wisconsingeologicalsurvey.org

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F-11
Henry Vilas Zoo (Elementary)

Friday 1:00-3:00 pm
No Limit Cost: $10

Vilas Zoo. Participants will receive a tour of the zoo with all its new facilities. There will be a 30 minute presentation on how the zoo can be used to bring science to life. Participants will also take part in a lesson demonstration.
www.vilaszoo.org

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F-12
Sustainability Tour

Friday 1:00-3:00 pm
No Limit Cost: $10

Holy Wisdom Monastery features two main buildings: the Monastery, awarded the highest LEED certification and one of the “greenest” buildings in the U.S. and the newly renovated Retreat and Guest House; two hermitages and 138 acres of land, including restored prairies, a small glacial lake, woodlands, four miles of nature trails, gardens and orchards. The quiet reconnection to nature that the setting provides and the contemplative atmosphere at the monastery, are conducive to both personal time away and to group gatherings.
www.benedictinewomen.org

Troy Gardens are community gardens. The gardens provide an entry point for individuals and households to get involved in the whole project. Community gardeners use the land to grow their own food, which has a positive impact on their household food security. Community gardens provide recreational outdoor activity as well as a fun and friendly environment for people of all ages, incomes, and cultures to work the land together and share their gardening knowledge and ideas.
www.communitygroundworks.org

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