{"id":831,"date":"2013-04-18T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=831"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:57:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T19:57:02","slug":"young-scholars-treated-to-day-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2013\/04\/18\/young-scholars-treated-to-day-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Scholars Treated to Day of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 fourth- and fifth-graders enjoyed a day of fun and science activities April 6 during Science Day at Harvey Mudd College.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-832\" alt=\"Science demonstration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/science-day-1-2013.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"129\" \/>Students, parents and teachers from San Antonio Elementary, Vejar Elementary, Barfield Elementary School and Harrison School attended the free, annual event, which features science workshops led by HMC Science Bus program student volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goals were to get kids excited about science and to expose them to a college campus experience,\u201d said Priya Donti &#8217;15, who co-chaired Science Day along with Ji Su Lee &#8217;15 and Aarthi Sridar &#8217;15.\u00a0\u201cWe wanted to show them learning doesn&#8217;t always take place in the form of a textbook or a whiteboard. It can be hands on, interactive and lots of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/science-day-2-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-834 alignright\" alt=\"science-day-2-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/science-day-2-2013.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>Participants engaged in a variety of science experiments, demonstrations and hands-on activities, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers (creating a mini-speaker using electromagnets)<\/li>\n<li>Puff Mobiles (building an air-propelled car)<\/li>\n<li>Optical Illusions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event also featured a chemistry demonstration by HMC students Devon Stork \u201915, Will Ferenc \u201913 and Grant Ukropina \u201913, and a robotics demonstration by engineering Professor Chris Clark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-836 alignright\" alt=\"science-day-3-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/science-day-3-2013.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/>The Science Bus program started in 2006 under the leadership of Bob Schaffer, a visiting professor that year in the HMC Department of Engineering. The program coordinates student volunteers\u2014from across The Claremont Colleges\u2014who visit local elementary schools to deliver hands-on science lessons. The lessons often include a demonstration, an experiment and a discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Program volunteers strive to build positive associations with science so that more young men and women\u2014especially from underrepresented groups\u2014will be encouraged to pursue higher education and careers in the scientific disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Science Day is made possible through the efforts of the program\u2019s student volunteers, along with HMC\u2019s faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View more about <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/sciencebushmc\/programs\">Science Bus<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 fourth- and fifth-graders enjoyed a day of fun and science activities April 6 during Science Day at Harvey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,9],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign","category-community-engagement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}