Grade School

Explore the world of aerospace materials through a hands-on show and tell featuring real components, specifically mock ups of aircraft nacelles. Put your engineering skills to the test with our paper folding and flight-throwing competition.

The Navy’s booth at the San Diego STEM Festival will serve as a high-visibility, interactive space designed to engage K–12 students, educators, and parents through hands-on STEM experiences and direct conversations with Navy personnel. The footprint will showcase how STEM skills translate into real-world Navy missions across engineering, technology, aviation, cyber, and medical fields.

Test your knowledge of bridges as our engineers demonstrate the concepts of bridge engineering using scale models built with K'NEX blocks. Visitors will discover how bridges are designed and built and learn how they, too, can become bridge engineers.

We will have fun and interactive cybersecurity and artificial intelligence activities with naval themes for grades K-12. Please stop by if you would like to learn more about what it's like to be a scientist or engineer working on technologies for the Navy.

Hands-on demos showcasing engineering and science concepts in the fields of photonics and optics.