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Oct. 20th, 2007 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafish
My alma mater JC, Orange Coast College, had a Community Science Night - in the Physics building the kids got to see metal tops made in the machine shop, watch little robots shove each other, and make parachutes. They also got to see preserved human organs, see a longnosed lancetfish, look at plant parts through a microscope, pet a kingsnake, make stinky chemical reactions and burn a piece of magnesium. They had a lot of fun, and I hope it puts a few ideas in their minds for the future.
In the Marine Science room, I introduced myself to one of my instructors I'd had more than 25 years ago, of course he didn't remember me, but he was too busy pulling the cover off the preserved lancetfish to show it to the kids to talk much; it was amazingly crowded. He might have remembered me if I'd told him I was one of the few who was interested in helping cleaning the stinky dolphin skeleton, coming in to feed the aquacultured catfish on weekends, or when a he and a bunch of students went out for a drink after class, I nearly always spilled one, even though I didn't partake of any alcohol at that point. Maybe I should send him an email.
