T he Science Club is made up of a group of Montgomery College students that want to explore the many branches of engineering, mathematics, and science. The club is open to all students of all three campuses and to the community.
The purpose of the Science Club is to promote interest, understanding, and knowledge of the scientific world throughout the college and local community. The area of emphasis shall include astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics and much more. The club shall seek to foster the type of honest skepticism that is necessary for life long learning.
Read our constitution
C ALENDAR oF EVENTS
Regularly scheduled
meetings are
every Friday from 3 pm to around 4:30 pm
in the Planetarium
240-567-1488
On Friday, September 7 2012
we continued officer for the 2012-2013 school year:
Co-Presidents: David
Kriesberg and Kaleb Abate
Co-Vice Presidents: Simera Hailu and Gabriella Mengistu
Co-Secretary: Meliha Nesru, Hawaney
Djaleta
Co-Treasurer: Hawaney Djaleta, Gabriel Ezimorah
Student Senate
Representative: Kaleb
Abate, and Simera Hailu
Social Media Officers: Tsion Woldemichael, Meliha Nesru
E-mailing Officers: Tsion
Weldemichael
Members
Kaleb Abate
Michael A. Simms, Jr.
Christiane Marie Gbozia
Tsion Woldemicahel
Lediya W Ephriem
Abel Kebekabe
Gabriella Mengistu
Andrei Drasoveana
AJ Joyner
Luke Bittner
Gabriel Ezimorah
Eliseo Bazan Gabriel
Roberto Feliz
Rodrigo Coca
Kirubel hadgu
On Friday, September 16, 2011 we
elected officer for the 2011-2012 school year:
Co-Presidents: Austin Lee and David
Kriesberg
( retired Sarthak
Modi)
Co-Vice Presidents: Aniurka Duverge and Kaleb Abate
Co-Secretary: Rahel Woldemichael and Simera Hailu
Co-Treasurer: Mirzofarhod
Mukimi and Timothy Joseph
Student Senate Representative: Dana
Warheit, Kaleb Abate, and Simera Hailu
Google + Officers: Muhammad Omerand and Hawaney Djaleta
Facebook Officers: Aniurka Duverge and Kaleb Abate
Internet Communication Officers: Timothy Joseph and Mirzofarhod Mukimi
Artist: Max Gabelnew
members as of February 10, 2012 are:
Hillary Koech
Michael A. Simms, Jr.
Christiane Marie Gbozia
Rahel Woldemichael
Tsion Woldemicahel
Adama M.Sombie
Lediya W Ephriem
Abel Kebekabe
Robel Asmerom
Gabriella Mengistu
We have started planing adventures:
NEXT Adventure
On Friday, October 8, 2010 we
elected officers for the 2010-2011 school year:
Co-Presidents: Austin Lee and Sarthak Modi;
Co-Vice Presidents: Wondoson Yimamu and Tekalign Wondimu;
Co-Secretary: Biniyam Tesfaye and Carlos Gonzalez;
Student Senate Representative: Brian McDermit; and
we did not elect a Treasure as we generally don't make or collect any
money anyway and this person had nothing to do in the past. Regular
members
Casey Jo Collins.
We have started planing adventures:
NEXT Adventure
Friday,
April
22, 2011 3PM "The
Science of Patient Safety" by Dev Raheja author of the book "Safer
Hospital Care: Stategies for Continuous Innovation"
Past Adventures
Friday,
April
15, 2011 3PM "Leonhard
Euler's
birthday
party" cake and juice in the planeatrium.
Friday, April 1, 2011 meet at 2:30PM in the planetarium to go to the
Museum of Medicine and Health
at Walter Reed, bring a photo ID to get in the gate. We will leave from
the planetarium around 2:45PM we have an appointment with a docent at
3PM. A directory with 153 images some
disturbing pictures. It is a disturbing, but interesting place.
Homemade
Levitron
1) Solar-Homes tour on Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 10AM to 2PM. Lets do that as an adventure. See URL: http://sites.google.com/site/capitolhillenergycoop/ . Meet at the planetarium at 9AM on Saturday, October 16, 2010.
2) USA Science and Engineering Festival http://www.usasciencefestival.org/ . On Saturday, October 23 and Sunday October 24 go to http://insidemc.montgomerycollege.edu/showStory.php?id=22557 our part “Magnetic Levitation” students should volunteer by sending email to Dr. Nawal Benmouna, physics professor at the Rockville campus, at nawal.benmouna@montgomerycollege.edu listing times they can commit to have fun in our place on the Mall.
3) On November 6 we walked
the Billy Goat trail at Great Falls, MD and saw 600 million year of
earth history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Goat_Trail
see
some
of
our picutres at the following site.
4) We will hike to the top of Sugar Loaf
Mountain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_Mountain_(Maryland)
.
We will no doubt have other adventures, too, just as we have done for
many years.
Last year 2009-2010
Members for 2009-2010 club as of September 18, 2009: Hannah Oseghale,
Monica Buitrago, Richel Velasco, and Marissa Terry.
On Friday, September 18, 2009 we had a birthday party with cake and
juice for Adrien-Marie Legendre who turned 257 years old.
On Friday, September 25, 2009 the
Club watched the movie "Contact"
and pause it to make comments. Solomon Tiklia will open the doors for
the first 42 people, after that the doors will be closed.
On Friday, October 2, 2009 we discussed the movie contact and elected officers for 2009-2010:
Monica Buirago and Richel Velasco were elected co-presidents
Marissa Terry was elected vice-president
Tamiru Kirna was elected student senate representative
Hannah Oseghale was elected secretary
Robert Ramaya and Reza Basiri were elected co-treasurers
Fred Gertler was also in attendance at this meeting
On
Saturday,
October 3, 2009 at 10AM we will meet at the planetarium
and then go to the 19th Annual
Metro Washington Solar Home & Building Tour.
On Friday, October 16, 2009 the cub watched the movie "GATACA"
On Friday, October 23, 2009 at
noon we are leaving the Planetarium to go to Great Falls and walk the
"Billy Goat" trail. after
visiting
the CO canel tavern and the falls. A picture of the
group hiking the trail a couple of years ago is here. A picture
of a group of students in the valley of the Potomac is here. Bring a lunch and ware hiking shoes.
On Friday ?, 2009we will visit
the Museum of Medicine and Health
at Walter Reed, bring a photo ID to get in the gate. We will leave from
the planetarium around 3PM.
Saturday, ?, 2009 we will meet at the planetarium at 9AM and go to
Great Falls and walk the Billy
Saturday, ?, 2009 we will meet at the planetarium at 9AM and go to
Sugar Loaf Mountain and hike the mountain. A group of students near the
edge at Sugar Loaf Mountain is here.
Members in 2008-2009
Members so far are Anna Campanile, Miles Joyner, Fred Gertler, Anthony
Soc, Chang Shuo (Sean), Ruth Stubblefield, Jathmel Gordon, Nater Katz,
Cindy Phu, Ben Craig, Aziza Khan, Sequoia Jackson, Ken Freelain,
Jacob Weisman, John M. Pohlhaus, Krystal Clarke, Paulo Dorsey, Lorena Arias, Stuart Allen,jr.,
and you if you show up!
We
elected new officers for 2008-2009 on Friday, September 19, 2008 and
they are
President: Anna M. Campanile
Vice President: Anthony Soc
Student Senate Representative: Miles Joyner
Secretary: Ruth Stubblefield
Secretary 2: Ben Craig
Upcoming
Field
trips "Adventures":
Leave for the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, meet at the
planetarium at 9AM Saturday, February 14, 2009
Past
Field
trips and "Adventures":
On Friday, September 19, 2008
we had a dead scientist birthday party honoring Ivan Pavlov
the presentation was made by Miles Joyner and we elected officers and
discussed when we might go to Great Falls, MD on an adventure, it was
decided that Sunday was better for more people than Saturday, because
of several people had classes on Saturday and other worked for money on
Saturday.
Dead
Scientist Birthday Party Hans Geiger talk given by Aziza Kahan starting
3PM on Friday October 3, 2008 in the planetarium.
Officers will attend Project Lead
training at the Office of Student Life ST216 Friday October 10 at 5PM
and Saturday October 11 at 9AM.
Friday,
October
10, 2008 meet at the planetarium 3PM go to the Museum of Medicine and Health
at Walter Reed, bring photo id to get in the gate.
Sunday, October 12, 2008 meet in the planetarium 9AM go to Great Falls,
MD and walk the Billy Goat Trail after seeing the falls.
November
9
at 9AM leave the Planetarium for trip to Sugar Loaf Mountain, a
monadanock, the color in the leaves should be beautiful.
officers
2007-2008
President: Ian MacIntire
Vice President: Leah Gold
Secretary/Treasurer: Reeve
Cononi
Student Senate Representative:
Lorena Arias
Other members: Giorgio Mori-Block, Asano Dales, Kenneth Freelain,
Lorena Arias, Alex Rogolsky,
Daman Camara, Lucia Zegarra, Alpha
Bada,
Nicole Leake, Miles Joyner, Chris Leeney, Pamela Thompson, Fred
Gertler, Alex Cuevas, Ahadu S. Tilahun, Roman Semenov, and
Michelle Orr!
Dead Scientist Birthday Party sometimes on Friday
Past Field trips, this year, you missed it already unless you were there:
Directory
with
many
Pictures
Many more links have
been added, check it out!
If
you
are a student or someone with interest in the
Engineering
&
Science Adventure
Club
contact
the
club's adviser Dr. Harold Williams
in
his
office, Science North 106 at 240-567-1463
Created by
Maria Arez
Modified by Matthew
Bowman
and Assisted by Jim Brennan
Modified 11/01/2004 by David Njuguna
Last modified Friday 3:39PM,
September 7, 2012 by Harold Williams
