Thursday, February 16, 2006

Lake Forest Park Elementary Science Career Night

A team of atmospheric scientists set up a booth at the science with information about careers in the atmospheric sciences. Bri Dotson, Lucas Harris, and Mark Zelinka manned the booth and performed lab demos for interested children and their parents.



Mark helps a student create a cloud in a bottle!

Lucas and Mark show students how to make a tornado in some 2-liter bottles.

Mark teaches students about how air pressure can control temperature, and how that helps make a cloud in a bottle.







Thursday, January 12, 2006

Brookside Elementary Science Career Fair

A team of atmospheric scientists set up a booth at the career fair with information about careers in the atmospheric sciences. Bri Dotson, Deanna Hence, Chad Smeltzer, and Mark Zelinka manned the booth and performed lab demos for interested children and their parents.


Deanna talks with an elementary school student about careers in atmospheric science.

Bri demonstrates how air pressure can crush a soda-pop can just as easily as stomping on it with your foot.

Mark and Deanna show students how easy it is to make a cloud in a bottle!