For Immediate Release
DHS S&T Press Office, (202) 254-2385
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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