Elementary students attend Science Day

Students doing hands on experiment
With help from ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State senior Ashley Milton of Cody, at right, children use aluminum foil and toilet tissue rolls to create replicas of the constellations.

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About 90 students from Dawes County’s elementary schools participated in Science Day at ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State College on Monday. In addition to participating in hands-on science activities created and administered by ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State College teacher education students, the children listened to presentations by David Nieves of Bellevue, a children’s book author who travels far and wide to study reptiles and amphibians.

The author and herpetologist gave the children advice about writing and showed them a number of live reptiles.

Nieves also spoke to students at ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç High School on Monday afternoon and is scheduled to to make a public presentation at the Sandoz Center at 6:30 p.m. tonight (Monday, Feb. 11). His appearances are being sponsored by the Nekota Reading Council, ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State College and the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Public Schools.

-College Relations

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