MIMIC fair preview: open house

by Logan Bland IV Leader Staff

The MIMIC fair, an annu al IVCC event for 28 years, will premiere on April 19 in CTC-124. The theme is open house.

“Twenty-eight years ago a few instructors got to gether to help give students something they hadn’t had before,” said Dorene Data, one of MIMIC’s original founders.

What started out as a small idea has had made a lasting impact, as so many years later the MIMIC fair is as still going strong.

The program has received awards for its work, includ ing two national science foundation grants with one being half a million dollars and the other being a quarter of a million dollars. Accord ing to Data, this helped grow the program expeditiously.

Data described what the layout of the fair in relation to its theme, “Open House.”

“There will be several different stations you will stop at,” Data explained. “You go through a kitchen, a garage, an office, and then outside.”

The products that students have designed for the last semester will be for sale at the fair. Items include a pizza cutter, keychains, and car accessories for the inside of your car.

Data said students should attend the MIMIC fair because it’s fun and you can see “what other students are doing in different disciplines.”

“Teachers in CTC are referred to as “workforce development,” Data stated as a final remark. “We train students to go out and help locals or go out and see what other students are doing.”

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