IN THE NEWS:
A day with the Doolittle family at ‘Exploring Your Universe’
By Daily Bruin Staff
Nov. 10, 2015 2:11 a.m.
The Doolittle family figures out their plan of attack in the Court of Sciences before heading to their first event of the day.
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Ella, Josie, Fin and Rob Doolittle head into the Geology Building in search of booths highlighting both Fin and Josie’s interests.
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Tickets for the Planetarium Show, one of Exploring Your Universe's busiest events. The Doolittle family was sure to grab them as soon as they arrived after seeing how quickly they ran out in the past.
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Josie and her mother Ella Doolittle learn about rock magnetism from one of EYU’s volunteers.
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Fin Doolittle plays with a plasma globe while listening to an EYU volunteer talk about the solar system.
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Ella and Josie Doolittle double-check their schedule while enjoying a booth featuring a real brain and spinal cord.
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Ella, Josie and Fin Doolittle learn about the importance of skulls thanks to the example of an egg shell. Fin shakes a cracked egg while Josie looks at one that is still intact.
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Fin Doolittle learns about magnetic fields thanks to a fun model.
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Children ask questions about hurricanes in professor Jonathan Mitchell’s lecture on wacky weather.
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Mitchell conducts a lecture about Wacky Weather geared towards a young audience.
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Josie Doolittle plays with a laser fountain at a booth that demonstrates how light can bend.
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Josie Doolittle uses a laser to draw on a glow-in-the-dark drawing board made out of phosphorus.
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Josie Doolittle and other children learn about static electricity from an EYU volunteer.
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Josie Doolittle watches as another child tries to make a piece of aluminum foil levitate using static electricity.
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Josie Doolittle and others look on as an EYU volunteer conducts an experiment showing what would happen to marshmallows in space.
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After a long day of fun experiments and lectures, the Doolittle family heads home, eager to return to Exploring Your Universe next year.
