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CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. Although the new science laboratories have essentially been in use all year at Croton-Harmon High School, they were unveiled to the public for the first time in conjunction with Crotons second annual Experience Science Fair.
Quite a few years ago there was a bond to fix our schools, and that bond failed, Karen Zevin, Croton-Harmon school board president, said of the history of the labs. Zevin said she explained point-blank to Superintendent Edward Fuhrman, on his first day, We need new science labs, and we need new roofs, and cant bond.
What she didnt tell Fuhrman was that the district had saved past state aid from a building project and had saved some cash from unused reserves for legal fees. This was put toward the new science labs, which cost the district $800,000 when they were finished in early fall.
Since the schools were already built out, the science labs were put into a room formerly used by the video production class. That class has been moved downstairs and is awaiting plans for a renovations using a $90,000 grant from New York State Assembly member Sandy Galef, D-Ossining.
So we have something to science and something to the arts, said Zevin.
About 20 tables were set up in the high schools gymnasium. Students as young as first-graders through high school seniors explained their tables and their connection to science. The Friday afternoon event drew a crowd of parents and student science enthusiasts.
Phoebe Turner, 8, dispelled myths that bones of birds are hollow with her two cockatiels, Cutey and Rocky.
Sylvia Lustig, a junior at Croton-Harmon High School, with three classmates, explained how fireworks are colored using a flame and three elements: calcium, lithium and copper.
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