EMSI participation in the Sensing Our World-06.
Sensing Our World is a week-long all-day summer camp about physical science, materials, physics and sensors for students entering 7th or 8th grade. Students visited various labs in the department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences.
Will Kinman, Graduate student, took the students to a tour at the Geology museun. At each display, he discussed the contents of the display and encouraged the students to ask questions. Some of the topics that he discussed included building stones; igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; acid rain and weathering; fossils; and volcanoes.
Dennis Birdsell, Lab Manager at CEST, gave them a tour at CEST and talk about some of key systems and gave them examples of some of the projects related to each system.
Jenny Forsythe, Research Technician at EMSI, gave them a demonstration on the Scanning Electron Microscope and EDS elemental analyzer. Students looked at a variety of objects, first at very high magnification, and then Jenny had the students guess at what the objects might be as she began reducing the magnification.
In the Environmental Biotechnology lab, Leon Downing, gradute student, explained how their lab carries out research in environmental biotechnology, which is the use of bacteria to degrade contaminants in drinking water, wastewater, groundwater, and soils.
Caitlyn Shea (left), Graduate student, answers a question from Karen Morris (right). Karen Morris is the Outreach Coordinator at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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