Oceanside schools host family technology day

Thomas Cesiro, School #5 and Shane Warner, Joshua Gutman and Jake Warner of School #9E enjoyed the workshop on Green Screen Fun and how it makes impossible things happen in movies and photographs.

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Adam Chernoff and his dad, Barry, get some help in the Graphic Design workshop from OHS technology teacher Michael Lawton.

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First Grader Torin Gaioni and her dad, Elijah, experimented with bubbles.

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Why do snakes flick their tongues? What happens if you touch dry ice with your bare hands? How can you film dinosaurs stomping through Oceanside?

Answers to these and many other questions were answered at Family Math, Science and Technology Day on Saturday, November 16 in Oceanside. Held at Oceanside Middle School, the day featured hands-on workshops for children and their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. They met with live snakes and other reptiles, visited raptors and birds of prey, conducted experiments and created origami, printed t-shirts, movies and music. For the non-squeamish there was also a workshop on “Shark Guts And Us.”

Workshops were given by district staff as well as the Theodore Roosevelt  Sanctuary and Audobon Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension and Mad Science.  Oceanside Middle School students served as workshop assistants.