Post from Sammi Smoot
Harborview Elementary School Rain Barrel Painting: March 17th, 2012
Mr. Kacpura, the art teacher at Harborview Elementary school helped to arrange for Students from Mrs. Luckie’s SAIL fourth and fifth grade classes to come and paint the rain barrels. Sponges were precut into various marine animals for the students to use as stensils and then go back and add more details. Some of the sea creatures ended up with a little bit more paint than they needed to but the kids seemed to have a lot of fun. I gave them a tour of Grice Marine Lab and a touch tank session in the wet lab. We had quite a few future marine biologists!
Students from Harbor View Elementary School painting the rain barrels at Grice Marine Lab.
Finished rain barrels!
Green Teaching Garden Mural Contest Winner: Troy Ganz
The winning mural contest entry was created by a senior marine biology major, Troy Ganz. Troy will receive the prize money of $250 after the completion of the mural on the main cistern in the GTG. Keep a look out for pictures of the progress of the mural painting!
Priming and base coat for cistern mural winner March 23, 2012
Callie Crawford and other marine biology graduate students finished painting the main cistern while I was away at a conference this weekend. Looks great guys, thanks so much! Now the cistern is ready for the winner to begin painting the mural.
Future work days: April 1st
Unveiling of finished Green Teaching Garden: April 7th at Grice Marine Lab and the Marine Biology Graduate Association 2nd Annual Marine-ival!