Staff Picture of the Week
Staff Picture of the Week: Marwin Explores The Oobleck!
Submitted by Tim on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 1:51pm. YES | Staff Picture of the Week

Thanks to some hard work and generosity from the SLSC Public Programs department, staff had the opportunity last week to walk across water.
"How?" you ask?
By combining corn starch with the proper amount of water, you can reach of state of matter we call OOBLECK, a Non-Newtonian Fluid which retains shape when under pressure but melts and fills a space like water. This means you can hit it, roll it in your hands, and even walk on it. However, the second you stop moving your feet, you will begin to sink.
Interested in learning more about Oobleck and other gross, sticky, fun science concepts? Give us a call at 314.289.1414 and book a program for your group. Who knows? Maybe we can bring Oobleck to you!
Staff Picture of the Week
Submitted by Jessica on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 8:53am. YES | Staff Picture of the WeekOkay, staff is slacking on getting in some real quality pictures. I guess they're too busy taking the pictures they aren't in any of them!
Here's one from last fall. Chastity, YES Coach in the Communicating Climate Change (C3) component, joins YES teens on a field survey. The group walked the field counting butterflies and looking for other interesting insects, plants, and wildlife. They're showing off their finds. Is that a persimmon?

Staff Picture of the Week (at Kerry's request)
Submitted by Jessica on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 9:33am. Staff Picture of the WeekOkay, I'm not normally all about self promotion. :) This week Kerry led the monthly Community Partners meeting. Each month we invite local community organizations to the Taylor building where we showcase a particular science activity or set of activities, talk about what's happening around town, and give youth care providers a chance to mingle with other organizations. This month's topic was climate change. Kerry presented a variety of activities to educate about the effects of greenhouse gasses. Pictured here is a Polar Bear activity developed by one of our YES teens. The object is to get all the fish to eat before all your ice melts away. The white papers are ice floats and the blue papers represent water melting those ice pieces away. You can only step on the white ones. Those polar bears are going to have to be pretty agile. The lesson learned: Emitting less carbon gasses helps keep the glaciers from melting, which assists polar bears with getting food. Check out your carbon footprint and what you can do to make better choices today!

Staff picture of the "week"- December 12, 2009
Submitted by Jessica on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 5:23pm. Staff Picture of the Week| Kevin assists SAS member with making her own kaledioscope. This was one of many pictures Kevin made it into this week, as he was so busy helping everywhere! This was the culminating activity for SAS. Previous activities included studying color/paper chromotography. Kaledioscopes threw in a little art and math. The activity was adapted from After School Math PLUS curriculum. var page_note_ratio = 1; |
Bringing Staff Picture of the Week back-Brandon finds things in common with Cindy (the turtle)
Submitted by Jessica on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 3:04pm. Staff Picture of the Week
Staff picture(s) of the Week
Submitted by cindy on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 4:21pm. Staff Picture of the WeekSo I'm a little behind on Staff Picture of the Week.....
Here's 5 great ones randomly selected from Flickr:





Summer Staff picture of the week begins....
Submitted by cindy on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 9:34pm. Staff Picture of the WeekWith Tim. I hope you actually put a quarter in.




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