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ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ lends support to Mayor’s First Day Festival at Gaylord

August 9, 2002

NASHVILLE, TN–ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ will host two educational booths with hands-on science and technology experiments for Metro Schools’ students during the Mayor’s First Day Festival Aug. 11 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. Staff members from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´’s Day On Campus Program and Mel Joesten, professor of chemistry, emeritus, and faculty adviser to ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Student Volunteers for Science, will assist participating students. During one of the experiments, students will discover how to separate colors in the water-soluble ink of a marking pen, utilizing the principles of chromatography. A second experiment teaches students how to develop “invisible ink.” These experiments are part of the kits that ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Volunteers for Science take to Metro Schools throughout the school year. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ is a major sponsor of the First Day Festival, which was created by Mayor Bill Purcell to celebrate the first day of school in Metro.

WHAT: ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ educational booths at First Day Festival

WHERE: Gaylord Entertainment Center

WHEN: Aug. 11, 2 to 5 p.m.

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