Peachtree Corners Business Hosts Science Day for Elementary Students

Employees of Siemens Corp. in Peachtree Corners conducted demos at the Norcross school to teach fifth graders the importance of science and math.

Employees of Siemens Corp. in Peachtree Corners volunteered their time for a Siemens Science Day at Meadowcreek Elementary School in Norcross. The entire fifth grade class was invited to participate in three different demos that the Siemens volunteers conducted last Friday, Feb. 22. The Electrical Engineering station involved electricity and lights; students made silly putty at the Chemical Engineering demo; and another Chemical station showed the creation of lava lamps by mixing oil and water. "We realize kids get excited about the science and math behind it, and that's our goal: To encourage children to go into the science and math fields, which is what Siemens does since we're a global engineering company," said David Sanabria, a sales …

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Want to Know How the World Works? Check Out These Books

The Gwinnett Public Libraries have books for the secret science nerd inside of all of us.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to tell you that science is really cool. These books, which you can put on hold at gwinnettpl.org and pick up at the Peachtree Corners branch, help make a little more sense of the world.  1. Backyard Birding: Using natural gardening to attract birds 2. Math for Grownups By Laura Laing 3. Feathers: The evolution of a natural miracle By Thor Hanson 4. Everyday Math Tricks for Grown-Ups: Shortcuts and Simple Solutions for the Not-So-Math Minded 5. Annoying: The science of what bugs us By Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman 6. The Book of Fungi: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world By Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans 7. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, counterculture and the quantum …

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