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MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Wilkes University Hosts Free STEM Discovery Day, Nov. 2

Wilkes-Barre, PA (11/01/2019) — WHAT: Wilkes University hosts more than 200 elementary and middle school-aged children to explore the fields of biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, environmental engineering and earth and environmental sciences during STEM Discovery Day. More than a dozen laboratory demonstrations begin every 30 minutes, starting at 9 a.m. and conclude at 12 p.m. The annual event previously was called Passport to Science.

WHO: Wilkes University students, faculty and staff and students in grades 4- 8

WHERE: Wilkes University, Lawrence and Sally Cohen Science Center and College of Science and Engineering lobby inside the Stark Learning Center, 150-180 S. River St. Pick up schedules inside the lobby for lab locations.

WHEN: Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Labs include:

Research with Invertebrate Animals will use planarians -- flatworms that can regenerate lost body parts -- to study repair of the central nervous system and Alzheimer's disease, and also show how using scorpion venom is used to treat brain cancer.

Water Treatment Using the Jar Test will demonstrate a variety of water sources that are used to create drinking water and how they differ in their composition.

Fun with Plants that Move and Eat Bugs explores how sometimes nutrients from the soil just aren't enough for plants.

Fractals: Where Math, Nature, and Art Meet will explain the beauty of fractals in nature as an abstract object with a never-ending pattern that repeats itself at different scales.

Wizards of Physics will allow participants to become Gandalfs and Harry Potters as they learn how physics explains the exciting yet complicated things in our world.

NOTE: Contacts on site are Julie McMonagle and Connie Dombroski.

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