Action shots like these



capture you right in the moment. You can imagine the feeling of what is happening. You can covey feelings of excitement through pictures of robots in the air and smashing eachother. Look at the VCU regional pics on the NASA Langley website for good ideas of what to look for (except NASA engineers in Hawiian shirts with big spider umbrellas).

Then there are still shots... the below's a post modern still shot of a safety glass (engineering interest) with a computer screen reflection (programming/gaming) with background edited by photoshop.

ooo, thats nice...

I recently did a quick propaganda for glasses too. To convince my team to go out and just cough up 6 bucks for their own pair of saftey glasses rather than use a shoddy school pair, I did a little stylish look at how cool being safe can be. I wanted to go for the fisheye effect, but seeing as fisheye lenses are $500 and up, I just took two pictures from one spot to get the wide angle, spliced them, and did a fisheye filter on 'em.



You can see my lack of time involved in this one (aside from the fact it's taken on my bed) from what the bottom-left of the lense does - not exactly physically possible. Although, since it's kinda hard to see it's two pictures spliced, you COULD pass that off as strong refraction ;-)

Anyways, the point is like monsieurcoffee pointed out, try getting a bit creative with your pics and try something different. You'd be suprised with what you sometimes get.

If you need some inspiration, check out Deviant Art - although the site is a bit slow (well, REALLY slow at times), they have tons and tons of amazing photography.