Banner Engineering Partners With The Works Museum To Provide Interactive STEM Experience

“Creating appealing, demystifying STEM experiences is imperative to attracting today’s youth to engineering and ensuring a future of innovators,” says Bob Fayfield, Owner and Founder of Banner Engineering. “Banner is honoured to be a part of helping The Works achieve their mission of providing inspiring, hands-on STEM learning experiences for kids.”

The exhibit, which opened to the public this past weekend, includes three interactive experiences designed with the help of Banner sensors, actuators, safety products and LED lights:

•Sensor Swap allows museum attendees to make toasters, fans and other common household items pop, whir and power-up—as well as shut down—using Banner’s K50s, VTBs, e-stops and magnetic safety interlocks.
•Studio Remix permits patrons to create beats and sounds all their own by using sensors hidden in couches and mats to play music and operate Banner’s high intensity spotlights. A DJ spinning table uses Banner’s D10 analogue fibre amplifier and PBCT fibre to change sound pitch and tune through a grey scale “record.”
•Sensor Mazes incorporate Banner sensors and actuators to create an obstacle challenge course. An analogue T30UXUC controls fix linear arrays that adjust in brightness in correlation to the analogue output. Parts of the maze are illuminated by Banner UV lights.

The Sensor Zone exhibit is open to the public from April 19, 2013 – December 31, 2013.