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Outreary Hercules Research

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The most exciting time to live in Hercules is mid-October. This is the time when one watches the changing leaves and trudges home through the piles that build up at the sidewalk. The pumpkin patches are full and colds are starting to take waves of students by the dozen. Yet, however dreary Hercules seems to students as they sit through boring lectures of the Pythagorean Theorem and Quadratic Formula, today is the beginning of an era. Today is the day when MASS comes to spread the enjoyment of math and science to the local elementary school. “But guys, science is super boring! You just poke dead frogs and stuff,” is what an uninformed person might say, someone who obviously doesn’t know about our members’ passion for numbers and explosions. …show more content…

The loud buzz of the intercom whines throughout the school, announcing the event of the day, at least in our eyes. “... like math? Don’t forget to attend the Fall Outreach at Lupine Hills Elementary School!” and the silent apprehension of the day is met with cheers from the “nerds” in the classroom. We call out one of the perks of volunteering in outreaches: “C’mon guys, you get community service hours!” Flash-forward to later in the evening. We begin with “spookifying” the room, placing pumpkins that were carved with an array of faces, from the kawaii to the frightening. The elementary school principal loves it. The students eyes are caught in the heat of a dollar bill that seems to be burning, but is left untouched by the flames. A pair to the left have their hands sticky with the scientific phenomenon of “oobleck”, smashing cornstarch and cleaning fluid into heavy balls and then letting it drip like honey through their fingers. Across the room are children covering their ears and giggling at the squeaky noises dry ice makes when in contact with metal. Even more are ogling at the cookies and cream ice cream made from the dry ice, the show stopper of the

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