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UA provides kids ‘winter wonderland’
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BY JAZMINE FOSTER-HALL The Daily Wildcat
Elementary students can explore the science of winter this holiday season with UA day camps. The Flandrau Science Center and the UofA Bookstore are working together to provide day camps for students in grades K-5 this winter break. The camps, called UA Fusion Camps, focus on giving kids a fun experience with science. Fusion Camps started four summers ago as a partnership between Flandrau, the bookstore and the Student Recreation Center, and were held at the Rec Center, said Jennifer Fields, education director at Flandrau. After some changes at the Rec Center last summer, the camps were moved to Flandrau, Fields said. This is the first year that Fusion Camps have extended beyond summer and to school breaks. Jennifer Moore, children’s program coordinator at the bookstore, said the Fusion Camps have been expanding every year. “We’re continuously growing, and part of our growth is branching out into camps that go on during breaks that elementary students have during the school year,” Moore said. “The winter camp is our first exploration into that.” The experiments students will do at the WinterWONDERland Fusion Camps have a seasonal theme, Fields said, while still focusing on science. “We always want to have a science theme, so we really came up with things like colds and flus and smell and ice and states of matter and weather,” Fields said. “But then we wanted to have some things that evoke the holidays just generally, so we have the toymaker’s apprentice and candy chemistry.” Fusion Camp organizers looked for experiment ideas that would play off the children’s creativity and imagination, Moore said, adding that if she were a kid, her favorite would be the candy chemistry experiment. “The idea of making candy and learning the science behind that, I think, is pretty exciting,” Moore said. The counselors for Fusion Camps are UA students studying elementary education and science education. The Winter WONDERland camps are being staffed by counselors from the summer sessions, like Tim Knorr, an elementary education senior. Knorr said his job is not only to watch the children, but also to make sure the experiments are safe and doable for the kids. The Fusion Camps are a great opportunity for education majors to implement what they’re studying, Knorr said. “When you put into place stuff that we’ve learned in the classroom at UA,”
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ARIELLA GLADSTEIN (top), an ecology and evolutionary biology Ph.D. candidate, holds onto Annie Mielke (bottom), a junior studying marketing and German studies, while suspended in the air on aerial silks on Sunday at Rhythm Industry Performance Factory. Mielke got involved with circus arts when she was 11 years old.
BY RYAN REVOCK
The Daily Wildcat Dangling high above the ground, upside-down with nothing but two pieces of synthetic fabric and their own strength saving them from a fall, Annie Mielke and Ariella Gladstein looked completely at home while practicing the art of aerial silks. This was a fairly typical Sunday afternoon for Mielke, a junior studying marketing and German studies and an instructor at Tucson Circus Arts, and her student Gladstein, a third-year ecology and evolutionary biology doctoral candidate, who routinely
find themselves hanging precariously above the ground. Mielke said she has been doing aerial silks and other circus art forms, such as the trapeze, for almost half of her life, and has been teaching at Tucson Circus Arts for the last year and a half. Aerial silks put performers high above the ground as they do different types of stunts, with nothing separating them and the ground but two sheets of fabric hanging in the air. There are neither safety nets nor lines, only pads at the bottom that most people would not want to fall onto from any significant height. “For me, [aerial silks] has
always been … a combination between something very athletic and something also very artistic,” Mielke said. “It is kind of a combination between a sport and dance.” She added that she “loves to perform” and that being in front of an audience is her favorite part of doing aerial silks. Mielke got her start in the world of circus arts at the age of 11 at Circus Juventas Youth Circus, a youth circus school in Minnesota. She continued there all the way through high school, rigorously training upwards of five days a week, she said. Mielke, who currently teaches the multi-apparatus
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Menorah Streetcar management lights up promotes safety education campus BY MAGGIE DRIVER
The Daily Wildcat As Sun Link Tucson Streetcar vehicles go through testing along the tracks, the streetcar’s management team will continue to educate community members and streetcar operators about how to stay safe. The streetcar’s Be StreetSmart educational safety campaign is an ongoing effort to educate citizens about the streetcar’s presence and how to SAVANNAH DOUGLAS/THE DAILY WILDCAT be safe around the tracks. ASHLEY HAMMOND, a dance sophomore, uses the bicycle path along the streetcar Videos on the Sun Link route on campus on Tuesday. The Sun Link Tucson Streetcar management team is workwebsite highlight details of how ing to educate the community about how to be safe around the streetcar tracks. to ride a bicycle while sharing the road with the streetcar. Joan operators have been trained team has gathered input from Beckim, the public outreach to use the turn signals and to local groups in the bicycle and project manager for the Sun pay attention to see if there are pedestrian sectors in order Link Tucson Streetcar, said the cyclists who would have priority to make the route as safe as educational videos also come in going before the streetcar possible. in 10-second radio spots and turns. “A lot of the striping, signage, a 30-second television public “We trained our operators to green paint, bike dots that you service announcement. Sun keep an eye out,” Al-Mukhtar see out there were a lot of hours Link has shown its video at said, “and to look for any modes spent evaluating every single various events around Tucson of transportation that they may area,” Ginn said, “and trying to and will continue to do so in the run into.” make sure that it was done to future, Beckim added. Shellie Ginn, the project mitigate [accidents resulting Marwan Al-Mukhtar, the manager for the Sun Link Tucson from the tracks] as much as safety and security officer Streetcar, said the management BIKE SAFETY, 3 for the streetcar, said vehicle
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A small group of students and community members gathered on the UA Mall on Tuesday night, where a rabbi spoke about the origin of Chanukah and led the crowd in singing prayers. Rabbi Yossi Winner then climbed a ladder to light seven candles on a 10foot tall menorah. Chabad at the UA, a Jewish community center on campus, held the menorah lighting to celebrate the seventh night of Chanukah. After the menorah was lit, the crowd was invited to dance and try traditional Jewish latkes and donuts. The menorah represents religious freedom, independence, family, happiness and thanksgiving, Winner said. “Light a candle in a dark room, and the darkness is pushed away,” Winner said. “We also light a candle and bring a little warmth and happiness to ourselves, our families, our friends and, hopefully, all these little candles together create a large, beautiful, warm environment.” This year, the first day of Chanukah fell on Thanksgiving. The holidays won’t overlap again for more than
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