SOUTH SHORE SCIENCE FESTIVAL (W.A.V.E.S.)

This is the article that was published in the Patriot Ledger on Monday, April 25.  I can't get it to show up here, but you can look up this link.  It includes some video footage, too.

http://www.patriotledger.com/article/20160423/NEWS/160427847

And this is what I wrote before the Science Festival:


This is one of the many great offerings of the Cambridge Science Festival.

Come for

Wicked Awesome Ventures into Exciting Science (W.A.V.E.S.) 

with so many things to choose from:

Gateway to Science: Sports and Games will bring back hula hooping (torque, angular momentum, centripetal force) and string-can telephones (science of sound) and assorted games.     In addition, we will be learning about how light refracts into colors with a story -- The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister -- followed by an art activity.

Learn about refraction, too, as it applies to determining what eyeglasses you need -- with optometrist Bob Crawford, O.D.

Refraction can be seen in gemstones, too.  Jeweler Jeff Bertman will bring a jeweler's equipment for examining these special stones.

The biotechnology department from Quincy College will be back again, bringing lab equipment and DNA games, etc.

Lob the Bottle, a sports-oriented recycling game, will be brought here again by Dick Leonard. 

Using Legos, recreate the manufacturing process with Manuel Barroso.

Computer-based activities include learning to write a story and incorporate graphics, and learning about Scratch programming from 30Hands Learning.

Learn about Quincy's early industrial history with Al Bina of the Quincy Quarry Museum.  The Inclined Plane -- actually a simple machine -- was part of the Granite Railway.

A model of the Souther Tide Mill will demonstrate how a tide mill works, built by Amy Boyce of Friends of Souther Tide Mill.

Mister R.E. Cycle , the recycling robot from Quincy's Waste and Recycling department, will be here with his human, John Sullivan.

Improvisation will be back this year with Mayah Braun.

Nature Studies was a big hit and will return with Suzanne Reynard, The Amateur Naturalist.

THIS LIST IS NOT COMPLETE AND WILL BE REVISED AS OTHER OFFERINGS ARE FIRMED UP.

For more information, go to http://southshorescience.org where you can see pictures and the schedule from last year and sign up OR www.cambridgesciencefestival.org. 

WHERE IS THE SOUTH SHORE SCIENCE FESTIVAL?

We're at 180 Old Colony Avenue, Quincy, which is a ten-minute walk from the Wollaston T on the Red Line, with parking available as well.