Middle School

ZOVARGO's booth is an interactive educational zoo animal booth featuring live exotic small animals.

The Salk Institute will be on hand to share the latest research in our Harnessing Plants Initiative, an endeavor to sequester atmospheric carbon & reduce global temperatures. Attendees to our booth will learn about the power of plants, examine the structures of plant roots, & conduct a seed planting they can take home with them.

Math games and puzzles

Experience your world in fun and fascinating ways. Learn how your brain interprets your visual world and how your thoughts and memories affect what you know. See how visual illusions present images that make you question what you see. Experience how your mind processes information. The activities reveal the fascinating ways that Psychological Science explores how we understand behaviors and mental processes. Want to understand more about what people do and how they think? Come find out!

Activities will introduce the public to the monitoring that takes place within the reserve including an exhibit of a data logger, a model of a salt marsh for hands on vegetation sampling, a maze describing carbon sequestration, and a salt marsh super heroes interactive for elementary-aged students.

We will have two booths. At one booth, we will have various science projects being demonstrated including an air cannon! Guests will be invited to try out the cannon for themselves. At the other booth, we will have VEX Robotics, Lego Robotics, and underwater robotics. At this station, guests will also be guided by our students in creating their own bristle bots!

**HeartHug** is a celebration of the embrace, it is a visualisation of a hug between two or more people, broadcasted for all to see. When two or more spectators hug beneath the sculpture, the heart lights up with a full spectre (rainbow). If one or more people stands without a hug, only half of HeartHug shines with just one random colour of spectre.

We will review how your body develops immunity with antibodies. Visitors will cut out paper antibodies and viruses to discuss how they relate to COVID-19 and vaccines. Participants can take home their crafts. Separately, we will bring a prepared petri dish sealed with bacteria expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) contained in a dark box. Visitors will shine a UV flashlight to see the bacteria glow. We will discuss the utility of GFP in immunology research.