Fashion and Science???
This past Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, Project Exploration received a great event. New York fashion designer, Eileen Fisher, released her new Fall 2010 fashion line for numerous guests in the downtown Nordstrom store. The event, held on the third floor of the Nordstrom store, was to help sponsor Project Exploration’s programs, which the proceeds went to. It was all decked out in white linens and flashing lights. On the chairs were gift bags with PE’s information, an Eileen Fisher catalog, and a free scarf from Eileen’s new collection.… Continue reading
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3 CommentsScience Chicago Labfest 2009!!!
This past Friday was the culminating event for Science Chicago!! Science Chicago is a year round Science…fair!! Many organizations including Project exploration, Field Museum and The Museum of Science and Industry participate in the event. Continue reading
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- 8-12-09, 3:21pm, Mammoth Site, South Dakota
Wondering what the Junior Paleontologists are up to right NOW? We’ve got an answer: straight from from the field to you – courtesy technology! Here’s a snapshot taken just moments ago by Project Exploration program director Kristin Atman with her phone, MSM-messaged to my blackberry, forwarded to my email and now posted on the blog. Now THAT’s science in action!
Our 2009 class of Junior Paleontologists are working alongside Dr. Larry Agenbroad at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. This incredible… Continue reading
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Friday afternoon I received the pleasure of attending the Junior Paleontologist sendoff. This group was a special group because they are the 10th class of JPs. The sendoff was located in the University of Chicago located on the south side of Chicago. This sendoff was to congratulate the JPs on all their hard work and wish them luck on there trip to South Dakota to go to the Mammoth Site. Continue reading
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Yesterday….
Imagine it’s a day earlier. July 29, 2009. Time…9am. Place…National Lewis University, Fourth floor. 12 people are sitting in a room around a large table. Continue reading
Junior Paleontologist in the Class
Today, i was able to see the Junior paleontologist‘s in action. The program’s classroom is located in the University of Chicago. This program takes a group of students,between grades 8th and 12th, to the Mammoth Site in South Dakota. Continue reading
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Fossil Lab with Bianca
So today I had the pleasure of getting a tour, along with P.E.staff members Mikki Brown and Jameela Jafri, of the Paul Sereno Fossil Lab. Our tour guide was fossil lab intern Bianca. Bianca, along with a young man named Randy, intern at the fossil lab where they clean and prep fossils that Paul Sereno and the different field programs find. This year is the first year where just Dinosaur Giants, another P.E. program, intern at the fossil lab. What an honor. Bianca showed us a small… Continue reading
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Thought Inspired By Jameela
“We have a bond with them because we share the world with them.”-Jameela Jafri, P.E. staff member .
When Jameela said these words she was talking about the animals that her, and nine other young women, will be encountering at Yellowstone National Park this upcoming week with the All Girls Expedition Program. She said people need to learn that we share this earth with them so that we have to know about them and protect them as much as possible. But after, it got me thinking that this… Continue reading
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