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GE Science Day
GE Global Research on Thursday celebrated its annual Science Day along with more than 200 students from five area school districts that were hard-hit by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Posted on November 9, 2012.
GE Global Research celebrated its annual Science Day along with 200-plus students from five area school districts that were hard-hit by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Richelle Bashwinger watches intently to a Van De Graaf electrostatic generator at work on Thursday. morning.
GE Global Research celebrated its annual Science Day along with 200-plus students from five area school districts that were hard-hit by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Here Materials Scientist Chris Dosch, aka "Ignito",shows the effects on a helium balloon, has after being dipped in liquid nitrogen.
GE Global Research celebrated its annual Science Day along with 200-plus students from five area school districts that were hard-hit by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. It was a chance for these 4th and 5th graders, many of whom lost a great deal in the flooding, to see more than a dozen experiments, and an opportunity for GE scientists to build upon the connections they established with these communities in the wake of the storm.
Middleburgh fifth-grader Austin Salomen watches as John Vieti demonstrates how a Holtz electrostatic influence machine works Thursday morning as GE Global Research celebrated its annual Science Day along with more than 200 students from five area school districts that were hard-hit by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
