Today is Informal Science Day and everywhere I look there’s some kind of hands-on activity going on—in workshops and the exhibit hall. From attendees putting together simple tools from what looks like an assortment of children’s building blocks to making casts, there’s someone doing something virtually anywhere I look. Walking through the exhibit hall, I overheard one teacher exclaim, “This is better than a field trip!”
I’ve also seen children and adults line up to get a closer look at live penguins (I’ve never attended a conference with live animals before!) and their pictures taken with boa constrictors, a fuzzy little member of the hedge hog family or Bill Nye.
—Lynn