5-19-10 Today was a great Day for Science! (Quote by Ron Sharp)
DoctorSlime came to the Delta College Lecture Hall, and gave a brief motivational
talk on effort and potential to the new inductees of the Possible Dream Program.
This elite group of kids, were choosen because they have the Spark and Sparkle to
make Bay, Midland, and Saginaw Counties a better place to live. These students have a long road of hard work and commitment a hard of them. These 6th graders have to Promise to stay in school, and graduate. If they do Delta College will offer them programs and opportunities along the way, to make their road interesting, exciting, and challenging.
Doctor Slime threw down the gauntlet, and challenged them not to blow smoke his way as
he tossed giant rings of smoke over the crowd. He held aloft two seeds one giant the other small, and asked the kids, if they could tell which seed would grow the biggest tree? The giant seed pod, or the tiny seed pod?
Explained that they were at a crossroad of opportunity, which their efforts would determine their potentials (how far they could go in life) and like the seeds size shape or color told nothing about the final outcome. Only Effort focus and direction did! He explained that time, was like a metaphor for water, as he poured water from one cup to another, and without a plan it could simply slip away from us, as he made the water disappear. He even shared the trick with us!
He showed the kids several neat chemical demonstrations in which he manipulated atoms and molecule to do his bidding, and explained that it was our turn to do the same thing with our lives. We could make a huge mess, like his Elephants tooth paste, which foamed all over the place with no apparent direction or control, we could build something fine, and ordered like his complex DNA Model.
We could expand with no focus or control and release a lot of energy like his Hydrogen
balloon in a ball of orange flames, or we could add alchemy, to the energy, and like a chef produce something extraordinary like the power and control found in one drop of space shuttle fuel.
We counted down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
BOOM!
One Drop of space shuttle fuel, plain old water, changed split and modified by
the alchemy that is chemistry can lift Men and Women Off the Earth to the Stars above.
He Challenged us to do the same! To seize the opportunity presented, apply the alchemy of education and learning and lift ourselves higher than we've ever Dreamed Possible.
That is The Possible Dream!
STEM Festival event held during the past two falls has become a high demand event and we’ve been asked to do it AGAIN this fall! Dow Chemical will again be our naming sponsor. The planning is still in the preliminary stages, but save the dates for Friday, September 25, and Saturday, September 26. We hosted the event that weekend last year and the weather was perfect for it! Friday will be closed to the public as area middle schools will register groups to attend. Saturday will be free and open to the public of all ages.
STEM Festival event held during the past two falls has become a high demand event and we’ve been asked to do it AGAIN this fall! Dow Chemical will again be our naming sponsor. The planning is still in the preliminary stages, but save the dates for Friday, September 25, and Saturday, September 26. We hosted the event that weekend last year and the weather was perfect for it! Friday will be closed to the public as area middle schools will register groups to attend. Saturday will be free and open to the public of all ages.
