AIPG SECTION ACTIVITIES California Section Presents Awards at the 2017 State Science Fair
Northern Section VP Dave Sadoff, First Place Winner Mia Chou, project entitled “Radon: The Silent Killer in Your House”. and Southern VP Mark Rogers.
Honorable Mention Awards, Gillian Healey, for her project “How Saturated is Saturated?”
Honorable Mention Awards, Nidhya Shivakumar, for her project “Halophytes: A Potential Solution for the Remediation of Soil in Saline Wastelands”.
For the 17th consecutive year the California Section of AIPG presented awards at the California State Science Fair at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on April 25. Mark Rogers and Dave Sadoff, AIPG California Section Southern and Northern Vice Presidents, respectively, judged 12 Junior Division geoscience projects.
Florida Section - Waterfest in Stuart Florida
AIPG booth we had lit- erature for adults, high schoolers thinking about geology as a prospective career or as a hobby, as well as small children who wanted to color a dino- saur, mining equipment or minerals.
Each year in April, the City of Stuart in southeast Florida has hosted a community education event in a beautiful local park near the City Center. It is organized by the City Utility Department’s Conservation and Recycling Coordinator to raise awareness of the environment, and in particular, water conservation. They invite local organizations, including the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) to par- ticipate in this event, which was held on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2017 this year.
Honorable Mention Awards, Luke Merickel, for his project “It’s Not My Fault, I couldn’t Handle the Pressure: Compression Obsession”.
Georgia Section - Drilling Demonstration at Columbus State
Samples laid out for describing. On April 11, 2017, we did a drilling demonstration on
campus. The students had an opportunity to watch direct push and hollow stem auger drilling. Dr. Clinton Barineau and Dr. Diana Ortega-Ariza helped the students in describ- ing the lithology. Once again I would like to thank Jim Fineis with Atlas Geo-Sampling Company for their drill rig and personnel.
We asked each student with a card if they knew what Geology was, then followed up with what geologists did in Florida (since there is little surface evidence of rocks)! Our activity was a binocular micro- scope where interested children or budding geologists could look at small samples of rock, minerals or fossils to see them in detail. It is surprising how many students and even very small children are interested in fossils and other rocks if they can look down a micro- scope.
Hollow stem auger drilling.
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