²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ professors work with elementary students
Sept. 17, 2025 — DENTON — ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ’s Office of STEM Collaborations and Initiatives recently conducted community outreach to more than 350 kindergarten through fifth grade students at Denton’s Hill Elementary School.
²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ professors John Beatty, Ann Davis, Diana Elrod, Brandi Falley, David Gardner and Tina Gumienny led a series of demonstrations, including:
- how thrust and gravity work together to move rockets and planets
- sharpening observation skills with a lively game of Spot the Difference
- introducing coding basics as students used laminated command cards to build step-by-step programs
- the Mentos-and-soda experiment showing how gases escape and create dramatic reactions
- using dry ice to teach how carbon dioxide changes directly from a solid to a gas
- explaining how earthworms mix soil and recycle nutrients
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