The Centre's website features many of their unique past events like An Experiment in Kissing, where an artist collected kisses as well as our emotional connection to music or Sleep Creative, where they looked at how to bring out your creative side while sleeping. One of my favorite events is the Beatbox Laboratory, where scientists explore how beatboxing works and how it can be made better.

The Dana Centre even has a yearly poet-in-residence who writes poems based on events! If you happen to be in London anytime soon we highly suggest checking out the Dana Centre, and remember that most events are free but you must reserve a spot. (And, in the first year of The Leonardo we hope to bring you unique programming inspired by the Dana Centre.)

A Mapleton Jr. High student uses the Van de Graaff generator

It has been made clear that climate change is melting glaciers all over the planet. However, James Balog believes knowing and actually seeing are two different things. James Balog, an adventurer and nature photographer, set out in 2005 to photograph many of the worlds glaciers. Time lapse cameras were used to show the rapid rate at which glaciers are melting. In just over two years, the photographs show dramatic changes in the landscaping all over the world.

The Leo on Wheels started the year off on a road visit to Helper Junior High in Helper, UT. We rolled into town on Monday evening and were greeted with ominous dark cumulus clouds, a setting sun and the most spectacular rainbow we had ever seen. It started out as half a rainbow, but developed into a full 'bow with intense colors. The 'bow stretched from the edge of Helper's Book Cliff Mountains on the north side of the city, over the interstate beyond the Price city limits to the west.

A rainbow is a perfect artistic expression of a scientific wonder. Did you know that the lower the sun is in the sky the bigger the rainbow? And, if you were in an airplane, at the right angle and altitude, you could see a full-circle rainbow! The Leo on Wheels features two exhibits that allow students to manipulate light by reflection and refraction, and students learn these concepts in 6th grade. And even though I'm older, every time I see a rainbow, I still marvel at the beauty and think about all the scientific conditions that need to be in place for me to see this event.

The rainbow was definitely an omen of the wonderful time we spent at Helper. The students and teachers are dedicated to learning, and proud to be Helper Rams.

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