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Botany from Basic to Bizarre! UConn's KAST (Kids Are Scientists Too) Program Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 10, 9 am to 12 noon For students entering grades 5 through 10 Advance registration required: $180 per student, $200 after June 2
Explore the science and mystery of plants in this brand new KAST module from UConn's EEB Greenhouses, part of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology's Biodiversity Collections, and the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History. This week of botanical adventure will begin by learning firsthand the secrets of how plant scientists identify different plants. You will experience tropical forests to deserts right here at UConn, make two terrariums to take home (one with flesh-eating carnivorous plants and another with a desert dwelling plant), taste some really bizarre fruits, go on a wild botanical treasure hunt, and learn the special tools botanists use to solve the mysteries of plant life. This adventure is offered through UConn's Kids Are Scientists Too program. Call KAST at (860) 486-9219 or visit www.kast.uconn.edu for registration information.

Presented by the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and UConn's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Greenhouses, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn. 860.486.4460 and http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/
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