Post from Sammi Smoot

Grice Marine Lab Marine-ival: April 9, 2012

Grice Marine Lab had its second annual Marine-ival which also served as the official unveiling of the Green Teaching Garden.  The Marine Biology Graduate Student Association worked year long to put together this event complete with carinival games and food, kids activities, marine touch tank, pie throwing and even a blow up obstacle course.

In the garden there were signs made by student volunteers describing all the work that we’ve done in the garden this semester.  The winner of the campus-wide mural contest, senior Troy Ganz was working on his mural during the event.  The Clemson Extension let us borrow a bike pump display where you ride a bike connected to the main cistern and a sprinkler.

 

(Left) Mural contest winner, Troy Ganz, painting the cistern mural and (Right) graduate student Michelle D’Aguillo riding the bike pump.

Garden signs completed with the help of Hannah Day, Callie Crawford, Michelle Reed, and Hannah’s boyfriend Troy.  Thanks so much guys!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Left)Kids at the local marine animal touch tank next to the GTG.  We also had two baby alligators on display! (Right) The highlight of our event (or maybe just what the graduate students were most excited for), a moon bounce obstacle course!