{"id":2736,"date":"2016-04-27T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2016-05-10T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:19:49","slug":"nimbios-hosts-field-trip-for-rural-middle-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/27\/nimbios-hosts-field-trip-for-rural-middle-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMBioS Hosts Field Trip for Rural Middle School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greenback School sixth graders\u00a0release their “organisms” back into the “habitat” during the capture-recapture simulation.<\/p><\/div>\n

Nearly\u00a050 sixth graders and their teachers from Greenback School<\/a> visited NIMBioS last week for an exciting day of STEM and getting a taste of the college experience. The rural school\u00a0located about 30 miles southeast of NIMBioS.<\/p>\n

Beginning\u00a0with a mock “university class,” students did a fun hands-on activity created by NIMBioS postdoc\u00a0Elizabeth Hobson. Students simulated the capture-recapture method of sampling organisms in the wild by using\u00a0tupperware bins, beans and pine bedding. The\u00a0activity showed the usefulness of math for doing ecological research.<\/p>\n

Next, students headed across the street to Hodges Library for a tour and an introduction to the University of Tennessee’s six-story university library and all of its resources. The students\u00a0returned to NIMBioS for a pizza lunch, since pizza is an important part of the college experience. Lastly, students walked across campus, past the new Student Union, Neyland Stadium, and UT’s Hill to the Min Kao Computer Science and Engineering building, where students toured energy and robotics engineering labs associated with CURENT, the Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks, an NSF Engineering Research Center at UT.<\/p>\n

More photos from this fun day\u00a0are posted on\u00a0our Flickr photo album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hobson (left) with Greenback School students<\/p><\/div>\n

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