Science will come to the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts during two weekends in November through Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s free community workshops, Science on Saturdays.
Tracy High School science teacher Dean Reese and scientist Gene Berry will team up at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 10 to show how scientists crammed a roomful of hydrogen into a small, specially engineered canister designed to replace a car’s gas tank.
Reese and Berry will show off one of the lab’s most recent breakthroughs — a hydrogen-operated Toyota Prius.
“Anyone interested in alternative fuels would enjoy this,” Reese said.
Tracy High earth science teacher Ken Wedel and scientist John Ziagos will dive into the topic of the global energy crisis during a presentation at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 17.
“There’s always another form of energy,” Wedel said, giving a sneak-peek at the workshop. “We just have to have the technology to extract it.”
Science on Saturdays is presented in Tracy, Pleasanton and Modesto by scientists and teachers in the lab’s Teacher Research Academy. It targets middle school-aged students through adults.
The presentations are expected to fill the Grand’s 550-seat theater both weekends.
For information: Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, 831-6858; or education.llnl.gov/sos.
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