Monday, 4 August 2003. We hosted 50
high school students - Jack
Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars
- for several hours of behind-the-scenes
tours featuring our research and collections.
Students
joined Dave Hunt for a tour of the mummies
and shrunken heads in the East basement;
John Brown for an adventure through the
entomology collections; Suzie Peurach
showed her group interesting specimens
from the mammals collections; Dinosaurs
were featured on the tour through Paleobiology
with Bob Purdy; Lesley Hale showed her
group some interesting rocks and ores;
and Tim McCoy opened cabinets holding
the meteorites.
After
a viewing of the 3-D IMAX film "Bugs!"
more behind-the-scenes were featured.
The group learned about invertebrates
from Cindy Ahearn; fish with Susan Jewett;
Sally Love brought her group to the Insect
Zoo; Mike Wise opened the mineral and
gem vault for a special viewing; and Dave
Hunt led his group through a mystery of
what human bones can tell.
