SCIENCE Adventure C LUB
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
Takoma Park/Silver Spring
T he Science Club is made up of a group of Montgomery College
students that want to explore the many branches of 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, geology, chemistry, 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 Thursday from
3:45 pm to 5 pm
in the Planetarium
Next regular meeting Friday, February 8, 2007 this semester.
240-567-1463
President: Tu-Anh Pham
Vice President: Vanessa Ongola
Secretary/Treasurer: Elizabeth Bergfalk
Staff Senate Representative: Makeda Yimum
Other members: William Cody, Michael Croft, Rebecca Johnson, Ian
MacIntire, Gweendoyn Curry, Giorgio Mori-Block, Jerin Nusrat, and you
if you show up!
Dead
Scientist Birthday Party
- Daniel Bernoulli (born February 8, 1700) birthday party on
Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 3:45PM in the planetarium at Montgomery
College Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus, Maryland, USA, Planet Earth
(3 major planet around Sol) in fashionalbe section near Orion outer arm
of the Milky Galaxy, in the Local group which is an outlying member of
the Virgo Super Cluster, roughly 13.7billlion year after
creation. Cake and punch will be served. Then we will
discuss future Field trips.
- Thursday, February 15, 2007 watch first part of Al Gore's
documentary "an inconvenient truth." A
Wikipeadia article on an
inconvenient truth.
Upcoming
Field trips:
- Saturday, February 17, 2007 Noon time leave for the National
Security Agency Cryptography Museum;
nobody showed so we did not go.
Past Field trips, this year, you
missed
it already unless you were there:
- Leave
Planetarium at 5PM right after the regular meeting on Friday,
November 17, 2006 if it is clear for a "Star Party" at 14921
Sugarland Road, Poolesville, Maryland to see the stars with telescopes
in the dark. We will arrange for everyone to get home eventually,
but it will be very late. Tell the people that you live with that
you will be home late so they do not worry about you. It was
clear; and four people went; and we had fun; but it got a little
cloudy latter and we only saw the Pleiades, an open star cluster,
128 parsecs (410 Light years) away, and Beta Cygnus, Alberio, the
pretties double star color contrast pair in the sky.
- Great
Falls Maryland, walk the Billy Goat Trail see 600 million years
of
earth history. Saturday,
November
25, 2006 9AM meet at the the
Planetarium to leave for this historic event. Please bring a
lunch in a
sack and something to drink and wear good tough shoes. See some pictures
of an earlier trip to this place that the Science club took. If
it is raining or the ground is wet we will go to Sugarloaf mountain
instead since the Billy Goat trail is to dangerous when wet and
Sugarloaf has hand rails and is not as dangerous when wet. Here is a
previous Sugarloaf mountian Science Club adventure pictures. Six
people went to Great Falls Maryland and we walked the Billy Goat Trail
after seeinng the falls. We got back around 3:30PM. We had
a great time.
Snozers are losers, carpe deim.
Pictures are on this directory.
- Saturday, 9AM, December 16, 2006
assemble at the Planetarium to walk to the Metro for a ride down town
to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery so we can see "In
the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000" lead by some
scholars who know Hebrew, Aramaic, Kone Greek, and Latin.
Hopefully the Science Club will be joined by some other clubs, the
religious ones and the philosophical ones, from Takoma Park/Silver
Spring and the Rockville Campus as well; hey we are a pretty welcoming
group all are welcome. A total of three students, a friend, and a
father and the advisor went and meet a larger group from the First
Baptist Church of Silver Spring. Three of us ate lunch in China
town afterwards. We could not take pictures in the exhibit, but
we took some pictures before and afterwards they are off of this directory.
- Star Party with telescopes from
the College at WoodAcre Elementary in Bethesda, Maryland on Friday,
January 19, 2007 if clear. Leave the planetarium at 4:30PM
for
transport of college students and telescopes to WoodAcre. We
should be able to see Venus briefly in the west before it sets, the
Pleiades (an open star cluster in Taurus, 128 parsecs, 410 Light
Years away), the Great Orion Nebulae (a star froming region) and Saturn
if we stay late enough as it rises over the building in the east.
National Air and Space Museum downtown on
the Mall
National Arboretum
NIH (National Institutes of Health) hospital
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitors Center
NSA Cryptography Museum
Air and Space Museum (Udvar Hazy Museum)
Luray Caverns
Please note that trips may be subject to changes
There will also be the following events during meetings:
Dead Scientist Day
Video Day : watch various films on various science topics.
If
you want to have fun with Science and us come and join us.
Favorite
links
Many more links have
been added, check it out!
If
you
are a student or someone with interest in the
Science
Club
contact
the
club's adviser Dr. Harold Williams
in
the planetarium 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 2:02P.M. April 3,
2007 by Dr. Harold Williams