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April 21, 2004
Helping Out The Mars Society on Rockville Science Day
Last Sunday, we participated in the Rockville Science Day Event. This event is sponsored by the Rockville Science Consortium, and has participants from all sorts of science-oriented organizations set up booths to talk to kids about science. We were there with The Mars Society, along with Tom Hill. Tom had brought in a Lego Mars Rover model, and boy, was that a magnet for kids! I guess I shouldn't have been too surprised, but there were some really rude kids! This means that they would not stop trying to fold the Rover's solar panels up even when asked repeatedly. How some kids can get to be so spoiled is completely beyond my comprehension. Everyone liked the video loops we showed with the simulated Rover landings. Some of the kids were impressive when it came to how much they knew about Mars exploration. Others would just nod when asked if they knew, but we could tell that they really didn't. We had a great time at the event, though. A couple of things to consider for next year - only exhibit kid-proof stuff. I wish the booth with all the snakes and lizards had let kids handle them. That would have been a completely interesting thing to watch. Actually, that's probably precisely why the snakes and lizards were in cages the whole time.
Posted by Kathy at April 21, 2004 12:48 PM