Nano Expo is a 3-hour hands-on experience of nanotechnology research for high school students here at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. We posed important questions and showed them how we are tackling them here at Birck, questions in such areas as:

• Quantum: What is the promise of quantum computing?
• Semiconductors: Why is it important to have a semiconductor workforce here in Indiana that can design, make and test the microchips we need every day?
• Environment: How can we make better batteries for electrical vehicles, devices and the power grid to address our future energy needs?
• Healthcare: Where can electronic sensors be used to revolutionize personalized healthcare?

Superconducting levitation demo

Microsoft quantum computing

Printed flexible electronics

Innovations in vaccine packaging and delivery

Light art

Flexible solar cells; marine environment monitor

Battery research

Microscopy from light to electrons

Nanobiology

Infrared thermometry