WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reaching out to future scientists, engineers, app developers, robot builders, machine learning technicians and overall big thinkers at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 6-8 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. DHS’s participation will focus largely on how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills can make a difference in how we secure and protect our country.
Components from across the Department will participate in the event. Visitors to booth #4406 in Hall C will encounter a broad spectrum of DHS, including:
* U.S. Coast Guard response boat, an unmanned vessel and other research & development projects
* U.S. Customs and Border Protection mobile command center
* U.S. Secret Service Presidential limousine
* Cyber Security Decryption Challenges and Cyber Innovation Center
* Detection Canines and inspectors from Federal Protective Service
* First Responder and Modeling and Simulation technology from the Science and Technology Directorate
* A robot maze
* Trace Explosives Sampling Demonstration
* Stop The Bleed Campaign demonstration of how to stop severe bleeding in an emergency
* And much more
April 6-8, 2018
April 6: 9AM-3PM ET The Department of Homeland Security will exhibit and demonstrate the role that STEM
April 7: 10AM-6PM ET plays in protecting the nation at the USA Science & Engineering Festival.
April 8: 10AM-4PM ET
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Hall C, Booth 4406
801 Mount Vernon Pl NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Source: Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate
