Community Day at Quad-C kicks off NANOvember

Dozens of faculty, staff, and students were on hand November 7 to greet the public and walk them through the future unfolding right here in the Mohawk Valley at the annual Community Day event commemorating “NANOvember,” a month-long series of statewide engagements that demonstrate the inspiring world of nanotechnology and the global leadership of SUNY Poly and New York State in this exciting field.

In August, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that GE and Austrian company ams will both be coming to Marcy, bringing roughly 1,500 new jobs and billions of dollars in private investment to the region.

Held in the lobby of Quad-C, visitors were treated to presentations from Mohawk Valley EDGE President Steven DiMeo, representatives from General Electric about their return to the region, and a Question and Answer session with SUNY Polytechnic Institute Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Dr. Robert Geer about what all these changes mean for SUNY Poly and the region.

Tours throughout the day by M+W Group also gave visitors the chance to see the first-floor clean room of Quad-C up close and learn more about the work that will soon be conducted within those very walls.

Under the guidance of K-12 Outreach Director Elizabeth Rossi and numerous student volunteers, children and adults alike were awed and entertained by a myriad of hands-on nano-inspired experiments such as vanishing jelly marbles that demonstrate light refraction and energy balls that illustrate open and closed circuits, among other activities.

Visitors will also get the chance to take tours and engage in hands-on, age appropriate nano-inspired experiments that are fun for the whole family, including vanishing jelly marbles

Simultaneously, a Community Day event took place at SUNY Poly’s Albany site.

For a complete list of events and activities planned for NANOvember, along with pre-registration, please visit www.sunycnse.com/NANOvember.aspx.