On November 14, three of our members,
Suzan Shahrestani,
Aimee Hoover, and
Emily Liljestrand, all attended the
St. Mary's County STEM Festival and Expo. Here, students from public schools around the county came out to enjoy demonstrations, interactive games, and dozens of local and state scientific resources. Naturally, as a local marine science institute, the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and its graduate students were more than happy to help out. We had a running video of Ms. Hoover's experiments on the best method to tag and
track baby sea turtles (the titular "turtle backpacks"), an oyster shell under a dissection microscope to show all the organisms that need this hard surface to grow, and a collection of multicolored beads to demonstrate how sampling works. And of course, we provided fish puzzles to teach identification/classification and handed out CBL stickers to any interested youngsters. Check out some photos of our booth and the event as a whole:
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| Our trifold board with information relevant to the demonstrations |
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| Suzan setting up her laptop to show underwater images of jellyfish and fish. |
And of course, our adoring public:
And a few of the other attractions (AKA, the competition):
We were happy to be invited! We look forward to helping out again next year.
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