Friday, April 27, 2012

On Saturday March 31, I volunteered at the Houston Children's Museum for the annual Nano Days event. It was a museum-wide event in which various stations were set up with a different activity that incorporated the nano scale with objects on the large scale. My favorite station was looking at butterfly wings, in which the kids were able to look at the difference in appearance between a butterfly up close and a single nano-sized scale on the butterfly's wing. It was truly remarkable, I learned many new things myself. Did you know that on the nano scale, gold is actually red?! In addition, there was also an enormous Buckey ball being constructed out of balloons at the heart of the museum that spanned from the floor to the ceiling. I loved the irony of it! I was at the I Spy Nano station in which I told interested kids cool facts about nanotechnology that I learned, and they were to find it on their I Spy game cards. The older kids were fascinated by most of the new information they learned. The younger ones got a fun game of I Spy out of it. It was a win-win for everyone! Over all, I think everyone had a good time and the event was successful. The kids had fun as well as the volunteers!

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