A brief history of EISEF's logos
In 2000, EISEF adopted its first logo.
Each year since then, we've had a different logo.
The logo appears on promotional material, including the pins that
our student exhibitors and adult volunteers receive.
Here are our logos to date:
(Click on an image to see other sizes and styles.)
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For our first pin, we decided to go with
something simple: it should be in the shape of Iowa, with our acronym, the
year, and a stylized atom for science and technology. Each student we sent
to the International Fair in Detroit received a bunch of them as trading
material, and the pins proved a big hit. |
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The students we sent to Detroit said we
should keep the Iowa-shaped pins, and this sounded good to us. The
space-walking astronaut symbolizes space exploration; it's also a tip of the
hat to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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Our designer showed us a half-dozen possible
pin designs, and we instantly fell in love with this circuit-board motif. |
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For a couple of years, the students we sent
to the International Fairs had been requesting an ear of corn on the pin.
This year, we decided to oblige them. We told ourselves that it
symbolized Iowa's biotechnology and agronomy. |
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In past years we had featured nuclear physics, space
exploration, electronics, and biotechnology. This seemed like a good
year for chemistry and laboratory experimentation. |
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We're the Eastern Iowa Science and
Engineering Fair. This year we decided it was high time to
commemorate the engineering part of our name. |
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A human figure, female, dressed as a
scientist, working in a laboratory—we found a lot to like about this year's
logo. |
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We hadn't done a space theme since 2001, and observing
the skies with a telescope is good science. Also, this logo let us
honor Iowa's own space researcher
James Van Allen, who died in August 2006. |
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The hot topic that year was biofuels, especially ethanol
made from corn. What could be more topical than an ear of corn as a
fuel pump? |
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