Tag Archives: Ocean Explorium

SMAST Team Top Rund-Raisers for Explorium

wp_Fish_Bowl_team1The “SMAST Smashers” bowling team led the field at Sunday’s Fish Bowl 2011, raising a tournament-best $580.00 for education programs at the Ocean Explorium at New Bedford Seaport. Graduate students Marco Pedulli (team captain) and Kaz Hayashi, Administrative Assistant Gail Lyonnais, and Associate Dean Prof. Avijit Gangopadhyay bowled their way to glory and support of marine public education. Each bowler had to recruit sponsors to donate money for their efforts; fortunately for the SMAST team, those donations were not contingent on championship-level scores.

Women Teach GIRLS!

wp_adams_and_GIRLS!Abbey Spargo of the Ocean Explorium and SMAST Technician Erin Adams have created a curriculum “heavy in marine science and engineering” for the Women’s Fund’s GIRLS! (Girls Interested in Real Life Science!) program. Each Thursday in March, thirteen girls from Roosevelt Middle School are bussed to the Explorium after school for an afternoon of science activities. The girls stay on to meet the Ocean Voice series speaker of the week—each of whom is a woman in science and technology this month—and see her presentation and Q&A session before being bussed home at 6:30. Erin’s time and educational materials are contributed by Kevin Stokesbury’s Marine Fisheries Field Research Group. The March program, a collaboration between the Ocean Explorium and SMAST, is supported by donations from the Women’s Fund and New Bedford Public Schools.