Today was the start of the Cool Science festival in Colorado Springs at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Their mission: To build community; to stimulate the inquisitive mind; to generate interest, excitement, and optimism about the world around us; to promote our region's scientific and technological prowess; and once a year to come together in celebration of all of this. The Colorado Springs Cool Science Festival today is designed to:- Show the FUN of science
- Involve all ages from young kids to adults
- Engage in informal learning experiences
- Grow minds
- Facilitate discussion around science
- Build science literacy
- Enhance the Pikes Peak community
All of the teen Earth Science Scholars (Pebble Pups who are in middle school or higher) are coauthors on a paper that will be presented at the New Mexico Mineral Symposium at New Mexico Tech (used to be the New Mexico School of Mines). The paper will be printed in the proceedings of the symposium, and then also be printed in the scholarly journal New Mexico Geology.
We estimate that we contacted at least 4,000 students who came by our station where we had demonstrations, activities, and showed them how to really do science ----even at young ages.
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| This new Earth science scholar presented a paper on garnets at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show last month and is a co-author on a paper that will be presented at the New Mexico Mineral Symposium held at New Mexico Tech (used to be New Mexico School of Mines). He paper will published by the symposium in their proceedings and in New Mexico Geology, an scientific journal. |
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| Today during all of the commotion we were able to show a new pebble pup how to take scientific digital images of a specimen. |
