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A Day for Scripps Florida Science at The Gardens Mall
By Eric Sauter
Hundreds of school children and their parents spent a good part of last Saturday at The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens tossing colorful gas-filled balls around the place, staring at sea slugs and creating their own slime, all in the name of science.
The 5th annual CELLebrate Science event, sponsored by Scripps Florida and The Gardens Mall as part of Scripps Florida’s 10th anniversary festivities, brought together parents, children, scientists, graduate students and scores of volunteers for a day dedicated to the notion that not only is science an important part of our everyday lives—but that it’s fun, too.
In addition to the more than half a dozen different displays scattered throughout the first floor of the mall—everything from the inner life of a cell and model organisms (the aforementioned sea slug, as well as nematodes and fruit flies) to robotics and chemistry—there were quizzes about gases, science math (measuring a viral triangle, for example) and figuring out the rate of speed of chemical reactions.
There were also a number of displays by Science and Engineering Fair finalists from the Palm Beach County School District, each one with a student scientist eager to explain his or her experiment. Educators from the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium were also on hand.
In general, for the kids and their parents, the messier the activity, the better.
One young man pointed excitedly to the slime making exhibit and exclaimed, “Ooh, goo!”
“Let’s get in line,” his father said.
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CELLebrate Science, sponsored by Scripps Florida and The Gardens Mall as part of Scripps Florida’s 10th anniversary festivities, brought together members of the Palm Beach community to experience some of the wonders of science. (Photos by Sathish Srinivasan.)