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Hendricks Elementary School – Our Amazing Oceans!

March 15th, 2012

Thursday, March 15th, 2012 – 9:30 am to 10:30 am
Hendricks Elementary School – Tucson, Az
14 3rd graders in the CATS program
Our Amazing Oceans!

We went back to the CATS program at Hendricks Elementary school! Lots of kids with exceptional science skills! There are so into the ocean! With the help of one of our college volunteers (Bryan Keller) we got through all of our material and waded through great questions! We were also fortunate to get a donation from Mrs. Prohaska of lots of shells and other ocean materials that she wont be using after her retirement next year! Great to be allowing those artifacts to continue being used in ocean education!

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Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair and Future Innovator’s Night

March 14th, 2012

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 – 5:30pm to 8:30pm
TCC – Tucson, Az
1000 plus guests

Join The Fin Foundation at this new science night/fair at the TCC! Its a great chance to see lots of different science in action, student projects, and listen to scientists from around the area!

Another new experience for us as we were 1 of 17 groups with booths set up around the HUGE science project display! There were close to 6000 projects on display for judges to evaluate and award scholarships! We had lots of students and parents coming by to learn about the ocean and our organization! Hope to participate again next year!

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Tucson Festival of Books – Education booth

March 11th, 2012

Sunday, March 11th, 2012 – 9:30am to 5:30pm
Tucson Festival of Books – U of A Mall – Tucson, Az
1000’s of visitors, all ages
Shark School and Our Amazing Oceans!

Come out to the U of A campus on Sunday March 11th from 9:30am to 5:30 for the Tucson Festival of Books! We will be in the EEB tent showing off our ocean artifacts and sharing our love of the ocean with everyone! Hope to see you there!

What a GREAT experience! There were so many people! We were only there for 1 day this year but will be there for both next year! We had a great spot in Science City! Out in front so lots of people came through! We had loads of volunteers helping out as well (Carey, Jan, Bryan, Brian, Adrian, Jeff, Rachel, Jennifer, and more!) We were able to share our favorite ocean books, our artifacts and love of the ocean with over 50,000 people as they came to the festival! Next year we will be even bigger and hope to see you all again!

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Sunrise Drive Elementary School – “Our Amazing Oceans!”

March 2nd, 2012

Friday, March 2nd, 2012 – 10:00am to 11:00am
Sunrise Drive Elementary School
21 kindergartners
“Our Amazing Oceans!”

What a wonderful school! I was really impressed by this group of kinders! They were so well mannered and listened to everything we spoke about with bright smiles on their faces! I was laughing and having such a good time! I hope we get invited back next year!:)

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Flandrau Science Center on the U of A campus… New Exhibit!

March 1st, 2012

The Fin Foundation is proud to have contributed to the new exhibit at Flandrau Science Center! BITERS, HIDERS, STINKERS, AND STINGERS is going on now through the end of February! There is an Ocean section with cool info on puffers, mantis shrimp, sharks, cone snails and more! We would love to see you come out and support marine science and ocean conservation in the desert!

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