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 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 Saturday,
4:05PM, February 17, 2012 by Harold Williams
