Some pics from this year's Webber outreach program to Salem/Keizer 5th grades

Here are a few highlights of this year's Webber outreach program. If you want to know more about it, here's the link to the official website.This year has been the first year with twice as many scholars and twice as many schools (i.e. two instead of one). There have been some challenges, but all in all I think it went pretty well!

Here's Frank Bash, astronomer and Willamette alumn, giving a short guest lecture at Bush elementary.

The kids LOVED him!

Our Highland scholars Carli (bio), Estella (chem), Emily (EES), and Sam (phys), preparing the solar-system-demo in the hallway. 

 

Building and launching "rockets" (water + alka selzer):

 

 

Learning about sound and building instruments:

 

 

And last but not least, building flower presses for flowers they collected on campus (this was during our last big get together good bye party):