The BioBus visited the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum yesterday. We had a great time – first with the Girl’s Do Science club, after which we opened our doors to the public for three hours. About fifty people throughout the day got a chance to look at all manner of strange microscopic creatures. Thanks to Jeanette, Virginia, and Alex for helping out with everything, and to Meadow and Elaine at the Orpheum for helping to organize the visit. We also had the local newspaper crew come by and they wrote a really nice story about the BioBus that came out this morning: News-Gazette Story on BioBus.
Tomorrow I will be driving to Columbus, where I am going to do some work on the bus at a family run bus garage there. Felling a little sad to leave my home here in Urbana, but I am to have some memories in the form of some great micrographs and photographs. Here is the star of the afternoon, an amoeba from the Boneyard Creek. There is also a diatom moving around next to it – that is the long canoe shaped cell.
