They came, they explored, they got a glimpse of where their parents or guardians spend their 9-to-5.
Dal's Faculty of Science invited Grade 9 children of faculty and staff to campus Nov. 6 as part of Take Our Kids to Work Day, offering them a range of activities to get a closer look at what a day in the life at Dal is like. The verdict: it can be a very different experience depending on your job.
Students toured some of the Faculty’s core facilities, including the eighth-floor greenhouse in the Life Sciences Centre (LSC), the battery labs in the Sir James Dunn Building, and the Aquatron, while also visiting Dr. Sherry Stewart’s Mood, Anxiety, and Addiction Co-Morbidity (MAAC) Lab and taking part in a DNA extraction activity led by volunteers from the Dal chapter of Let’s Talk Science.
After refueling with pizza during a lunch-and-learn presentation from SuperNOVA, students spent the afternoon in sessions organized by Heather Fraser of Information Technology Services (ITS), touring the data centre and MedIT’s home in the Tupper Building, before participating in a patient-care simulation at the Collaborative Health Education Building. The day concluded with a leadership talk from Kareina Cadel, Dal’s manager of student experience.
“It was a very busy but very successful day,” says Sinmi Ayantoye, the Faculty of Science’s outreach manager who led the planning for the event. “We’re grateful to all our partners from across Dal who stepped up to lead activities and welcome our visiting students. Hopefully we’ll see them at Dal again in a few years!”
Dal photographer Danny Abriel was on hand to capture some of the day’s activities:
Dean of Science Dr. Chuck Macdonald welcomes students, including his son, to Dal.
Students see the greenhouse plants up close.
Greenhouse manager Carman Mills leads a tour of the eighth-floor facility.
The group heads over to the Dunn Building.
Battery lab manager Michel Johnson welcomes students.
Checking out the equipment in the Dunn Building battery lab.
Students participate in a DNA extraction activity led by Let’s Talk Science.
