Barbara Pearson and Tom Roeper together with faculty and students from University of Maryland and Ohio University (Laura Wagner and Colin Phillips) operated a Language Booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC April 6-8, 2018, under a grant to Laura Wagner.

Tom Roeper reports:

USASEF is the nation’s largest celebration of STEM [usasciencefestival.org] and attracted by one source 350,000 people. Laura Wagner estimated that we had 100 children visiting every hour with mostly Middle School and elementary school children. We engaged children in games on recursion, presupposition, and quantification. And other models of phonological and language variation were all popular. It was a bit
overwhelming, but fun and useful for everyone.