Science Day Brings 500 to Campus

This year, Science Day volunteers welcomed over 500 attendees to spend a day exploring many different scientific disciplines through hands-on activities and experiments at the 9^th Annual Science Day at Dartmouth on April 13.

Activity stations ranged from extracting DNA from strawberries, identifying rocks and meteorites, racing a humanoid robot, and many more. In addition to the activity stations hosted by 12 different departments across Dartmouth, guided tours of the Life Sciences Center Greenhouse were offered, as well as activities led by NERDSQUAD, a local nonprofit science outreach program, and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans (SACNAS) at Dartmouth Chapter.

This event was made possible by graduate students, postdocs, staff, and faculty volunteers with about 115 volunteers in total! Thank you all for an amazing Science Day – we can't wait to see everyone next year!

Organizers:

• Irma Vlasac (3^rd year MCB Student)
• Katherine Doss (2^nd year MCB Student)
• Paige Blinkiewicz (2^nd year MCB student)
• Sam Liu (3^rd year MCB student)
• Sarah Vandal (3^rd year MCB student) 

Statistics:

• Attendees: ~270 students and ~230 adults
• Volunteers: ~115 volunteers
• Stations/activities: 26 stations/activities
• 12 departments
• 2 Dartmouth graduate student led organizations