A Bayside Initiative

In an effort to extend the reach of science in the afterschool environment, the USD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has teamed up with the Bayside Community Center in Linda Vista. Under the direction of Dr. Peter Iovine, students enrolled in CHEM 494 have the unique opportunity to engage the Bayside kids in a variety of science activities they have designed on their own with the intent of introducing science in an approachable and fun way to each child.

This blog has been created to act as a log of the astronomy project "A Walk Through the Solar System" designed by Alyssa, Lorenzo, and myself. We travel to Bayside every Friday and spend an hour with the six 4th - 6th graders in attendance, engaging them in the wonder of space. Our goal: To interest young minds not only in the world we live in, but the worlds around us, and to put into perspective our minute place in this vast universe.

Here, the three of us will share our reflections throughout the various weeks of our project...

We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it.

- Timothy Ferris, "The Whole Shebang"