Rockville Science Day Celebrates 20 YearsWednesday, 29 April 2009 | Gazette.net | Author: Contessa Crisostomo |
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Scientists, science enthusiasts and families looking for fun descended upon Montgomery College's Rockville campus on Sunday as the Rockville Consortium for Science celebrated the 20th year of its popular Science Day.
The event, aimed at educating people on the sciences, has grown throughout the years and exhibits have spread through new parts of the college campus.
In the school's gymnasium, children flocked to the reptile exhibits and held frogs and pet turtles and gaped at the snakes and iguanas. The reptiles were kept in cages along the east side of the gym — luckily for the mice and homing pigeons on the west side of the room.
Across campus, college professors showed the many ways that chemistry can be illuminating, mixing chemicals to make colorful glowing liquids and illustrating the flammable nature of finely ground powders.
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