From April 17 through April 19, more than 100 of the world's leading paleontologists will gather to present their findings to over 300 colleagues and the public. Stephen Jay Gould is the Symposium's keynote speaker. From watching trucks arrive with crates of fossils to witnessing the building of exhibits, students track the progress of the event through the Dinoflash section of the Dinofest web site. A Kids' Section contains activities to prepare students for their visit. Activities include fossil feature worksheets, scavenger hunts, and the making of online exhibits where students send in their dinosaur-related projects for display on the web site.
Projects can range from original artwork and poetry to research papers.
The ANS will partner with the Philadelphia School District on a remote distance learning project. Past participants have worked on projects ranging from lameness in dairy cattle, and expression of genes in the tissue of poplar trees, to algorithms for solving systems of linear equations, and density measurements of new chalcogenide glasses. Cost to the interns, who are from all over the United States, is their travel expenses and room and board. Deadline for application is February 27, 1998. Two two-week institutes are offered through the SummerMath for Teachers Program at Mount Holyoke College this summer.