Bailey Elementary
Hands on Science Night
March 11th, 2004

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A cold Tim Sinks shows Sunspots	Checking out NASA handouts	Piloting Mars Rover
Checking out 8" a newtonian	Jim shows Earth/Moon/Mars weight bottles, Lunar base video in background	Piloting Rover
ISS orbit plot STS+ display	Jim explains how the Earth and Moon go around the Sun	Mike explains the universe via Night Sky AV
Explaining the Sun/Earth/Moon sys	Sun/Earth/Moon sys	Sun/Earth/Moon sys
Rover Drivers	Rover Drivers	Rover Drivers
Tim shows an astronomy item on a laptop	MAS Telescopes	too cold to observe
other displays	Electro Chemistry	Woodbury PD
Wise old owl	learning about rocks	more rocks
Power line safety	Checking teeth	various animal pelts
Various bugs and stuff	water bugs	Crawfish
more pelts	Tim with Orrey

MN Space Frontier and MN Astronomical Society once again returned to Bailey Elementary's Hand's On Science Family Night.

Joining with dozens of other groups and businesses they put on displays visited by hundreds of kids and parents and teachers showing a bit of the fun of Science in the work place and home hobbies. Each group put up a display table that was staffed by its members.

MAS offered sun spot viewing till sundown, a Orrey of the solar system, various telescopes to examine and some MAS and MN Planetarium info handouts.

MN SFS offered a chance to pilot a computer controlled rover and check out the weight of a bottle of water on Earth, the Moon and Mars. They also showed a large screen video of proposed Moon and Mars exploration. Visitors also got to take home their own astronaut photos, including ISS Crew 8 and a litho of Space station in its current configuration, and make their own paper cutout shuttles.

My thanks to Jim Cran, Mike Kibat and Tim Sinks who helped staff the MAS/MN SFS displays, NASA Glenn for supplying some of the photos and handouts and Susan Nord Bohlke "Hands on Science" Parent Coordinator for inviting us again.

Ben Huset
MAS Outreach Chair
MN SFS Board

Photos by Ben Huset

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