In collaboration with Time Warner Cable’s “Connect A Million Minds Week” – an effort to get kids interested in science, technology, engineering and math – the SyracuseCoE Center for Sustainable Community Solutions hosted 5th and 6th grade students from Salem Hyde Elementary School to learn about the SyracuseCoE headquarters and how it acts as a “living laboratory,” as well as attend a variety of fun, educational workshops.
Throughout the day, students learned how liquid nitrogen can be used to create ice cream, played with worms with the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency while discovering the concepts of composting and environmental sustainability, and figured out the binary code involved in wireless communications from Time Warner Cable engineers.
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