![]() ![]() “When I found out the two week festival started on Halloween, I figured it fit perfectly into my specialty, anatomy,” says Staab. Outreach is also part of TriBeta's mission, and she is the group’s faculty advisor. Staub decided to participate in the statewide Maryland STEM Festival because outreach is part of what scientists should be doing. And they discovered, as they tossed Swedish fish into their Halloween sacks, that science can indeed be fun. They were awed by bone-cleaning job done by the flesh-eating or dermestid beetles. ![]() Trick-or-treaters held 3D printed dinosaur skulls and other bones in their hands. “The trick-or-treaters were so excited to see a dolphin skull and flesh-eating beetles and other neat things we brought from anatomy lab.” “Science is seen as scary to a lot of people and this was a chance to show kids how interesting and how cool science really is,” says Palmer, a senior Biology major from Nashville, Tenn. So, professor and Biology students packed up projects and models from anatomy lab and set up “Bugs, Bones and Treats,” their trick-or-treat table, in front of Campus Safety on Pennsylvania Avenue in Westminster. To Biology professor Katie Staab and TriBeta Biology Honor Society president Riley Palmer, it was the perfect opportunity to bring science to kids in the community in a slightly scary but super fun way. Skeletons, skulls and flesh-eating beetles with a treat of Swedish fish thrown into the pot - imaginations ran wild among McDaniel’s Biology students and their anatomy professor when they discovered that the Maryland STEM Festival kick off fell on Halloween. ![]()
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