COSI On Wheels visits General Rosecrans

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School stu­dents explored our Solar Sys­tem with­out ever leav­ing their school when COSI (Cen­ter of Sci­ence and Indus­try) brought its trav­el­ing sci­ence pro­gram Astound­ing Astron­omy to Sunbury.

The inno­v­a­tive, inter­ac­tive pro­gram, one of six COSI trav­el­ling demon­stra­tions, is designed to stim­u­late the imag­i­na­tions of the next gen­er­a­tion of astro­nauts and aero­space engineers.

The day began with COSI Out­reach Edu­ca­tor Chelsie Web­ster pre­sent­ing a 45-minute inter­ac­tive assem­bly intro­duc­ing the stu­dents to our solar system.

Dur­ing the assem­bly GRE stu­dents explored the size and dis­tance between the plan­ets, the elec­tro­mag­netic spec­trum, the extreme cold of the outer plan­ets and deep space as well as learned how the Earth is cur­rently the only planet known to con­tain life.

The assem­bly was fol­lowed by hands-on activ­i­ties dur­ing which the stu­dents maneu­vered a remotely oper­ated vehi­cle, iden­ti­fied con­stel­la­tions, and watched the affect of air pres­sure on a marshmallow.

Web­ster said COSI On Wheels pro­grams aligns with Ohio Aca­d­e­mic Con­tent Stan­dards and com­pli­ments the National Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion Stan­dards, allow­ing stu­dents to dis­cover the impact that chem­istry and space tech­nol­ogy have on their daily lives.

COSI is a hands-on sci­ence cen­ter located in Colum­bus. Each year more than 300,000 stu­dents take part in COSI On Wheels pro­grams, and in the past 30 years, COSI On Wheels has brought hands-on sci­ence into the lives of over 7.5 mil­lion stu­dents across the Midwest.

COSI is located at 333 West Broad Street in Colum­bus. For addi­tional infor­ma­tion log on to < cosi.org >.

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