The teens were tuned in. The younger kids were charged up.

At the WickedSTEM technology festival Saturday at Southern New Hampshire University, curiosity met imagination. The Athletic Center buzzed with gadgets, gizmos, prancing robotic dogs and an electric Formula One race car designed by college students. Speakers discussed topics such as how to forge a career designing video games.

Nine-year-old Everett Stump, a fourth grader from Hudson, sat wide-eyed as Raina White, a Dartmouth College lecturer in engineering and an adviser to the college's student-run Formula Race Team, popped the hood on the subject of hybrid-electric race cars. An electric model, the student-designed Talia was parked outside near the event's food trucks.

"How much does the battery weigh?" asked a boy in the audi

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