Bayfield library hosts STEAM Fair Saturday
Amber Moritz, a Bayfield artist and mom, helps participants at the Pine River Library STEAM FAIR create a community art project.
Sticky orange balls are a hit with girls learning about science. Arianee Streeter, 4, and little sister Eden, 1, check out various forms of polymers. Participants learned polymers can range from bouncy balls to absorbent diaper materials to hard skateboards.
Brooke Smith demonstrates how polymers, in this case a plastic bag, create a seal around wooden sticks.
Music is part of this year's STEAM Fair, thanks to the Be FRANK Foundation. Lech Usiniwicz, center, the foundation director, leads kids in some trash can drumming on Saturday. During the hot afternoon, they added some water to the drumming so participants could splash and cool off while creating percussion pieces.
Abbie Sporl demonstrates how to create some big bubbles on Saturday.
Justin Nickerson uses dry ice and warm water to create fog to fill soap bubbles. The gloves prevent the oil on his hands from damaging the surface of the bubbles and popping them.
Tom Kaufman, marshal for Upper Pine Fire Protection District, helps some junior firefighters douse a flaming 'building.' The flames flip over if kids hit them directly with a fire hose. Department staff built the contraptions to provide kids with activities at community events and learn about fire safety.
Kids can put the theories of physics, kinetic energy and propulsion into use in the bounce house at Saturday's STEAM event.
Pine River Public Library hosted its first annual STEAM Fair on Saturday, celebrating all things in science, technology, engineering, arts and music.
Library staff and volunteers estimate more than 325 people attended the festival. Activities ranged from drumming to chemistry to physics, as well as some junior firefighters being able to douse a fire.
The library has movie nights and more activities on tap in August, and its second annual Zucchini Festival on Sunday, Sept. 11.
