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Project Exploration at Science Foo Camp

By clock on June 26, 2007.

i-3f924b80882fdb952296568716277b4f-pe-logo.gifAs more and more people are slowly coming out of the woodwork and revealing they are going to Science Foo Camp, I am getting more and more excited about it! Yes, I have registered and reserved my hotel room already.

Sure, people like Neal Stephenson and Carl Djerassi are going to be there (as well as all those bloggers I linked to before - see the link above), but I am so excited to be able, for the first time, to meet in person Gabrielle Lyons, the power behind Project Exploration (the link to their site has been on my sidebar - scroll down - for about a year now). I wrote about it in more detail before.

They are gearing up for a busy summer season, taking inner-city kids to labs, museums and dinosaur digs. That, of course, costs something, but it is a cause worth supporting, so if you can, go here and see how you can help.

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paleontology
Science Education

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