City Students "Get Real" at Science Camp
City students waded up to their knees in murky water at Charlotte Beach Tuesday morning.
Thirty-one middle schoolers participated in Get Real! Science Action Camp to get involved in hands-on science experiments.
The students designed the project to take water samples from Lake Ontario.
The camp allows students to explore science in the real world, not just out of a textbook.
For student Hadaree Nesmith the water was "mucky, messy and smelly."
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"It teaches kids what science really is, so science is creative and collaborative and messy and tentative, very much the opposite of what textbook, worksheet based science is," said Univerity of Rochester Associate Professor April Luehmann.
The camp started in 2004 and has given U of R grad students the chance to help students study conditions on Charlotte Beach, to help the community in these warm summer months.
The students will test the water samples for bacteria and pH levels to eventually get to the bottom of the beach's problem: water unfit for swimming.
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