Mascots
Schlegel Elementary's yellow-and-black mascot is the largest of the big cats.
What is a tiger?
One of these is included in every kit, just in case you need to review an activity before you teach it.
What is a lesson plan?
Nitrogen turns from a liquid to a gas at this temperature. You can choose your unit.
What is -320 degrees Fahrenheit?
What is -196 degrees Celsius?
What is 77 degrees Kelvin?
While you should always wear goggles and cryo-gloves when handling liquid nitrogen, a drop landing on your arm won't hurt because of this phenomenon.
What is the Leidenfrost Effect?
Xerox Director of Global Philanthropy and Communications
Who is Elissa Nesbitt?
Plank Rd. South's feathery mascot has such good eyesight that it can spot a fish up to a mile away.
What is an eagle?
This geographical direction is the official name of the planetarium entrance closest to the lab.
What is the South Entrance?
We have climate data from hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before humans, because of these types of data from objects such as ice, trees, and fossils.
What is Proxy Data?
Fb=ρVg
What is Buoyancy?
School & Teacher Programs Coordinator (and a huge source of support when Meghan and I are out of the lab!)
Who is Amanda Redman?
Enrico Fermi #17 displays a perhaps inaccurate model of this unit of matter.
What is the atom?
Emailing this Excel file ensures your kit is reserved on your desired pickup date!
What is a Kit Request Form?
In order to perform a task, a robot must be given a set of well-defined instructions, also known as this.
What is an Algorithm?
This type of scientist specifically studies mollusk shells.
What is a conchologist?
Materials Coordinator
Who is Meghan Rahner?
John Williams #5's mascot is known for its distinctive short tail.
What is the bobcat?
If your badge suddenly stops working repeatedly, we may ask if you carry one of these in your pocket or wallet.
What is a magnet?
Climate is usually determined by looking at weather patterns over a period of at least this many years.
What is 30?
By the end of our two-hour picnic, the International Space Station will have made this many complete orbits around the Earth.
What is One?
Vice President of Programs and Exhibits
Who is Calvin Uzelmeier?
This extinct pachyderm is the RMSC's "official" mascot. Bonus points if you know his name!
Who is Murray the Mastodon?
If we miss your call to this lab phone number, the phone won't signal that you called!
What is 697-1984?
These two types of photoreceptors collect light to send to the brain.
What are Rods and Cones?
This is the term for the temperature and pressure at which water, ice, and steam coexist in equilibrium.
What is Triple Point?
Material Coordinator Emeritus (and current Science Consultant!)
Who is Chris Mandel?