The morning of June 23 students and parents from the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville came out to the ATFS Learning Center to explore several features of “WATER”, one of the themes for their Vacation Bible School. After a brief introduction to the Center and its facilities, participants, aided by internet programs estimated just how much water they typically used in a day’s time. Guided by Nancy Bray they walked to the well near the ATFS Garden to pump a very small portion of their daily water usage. They then had an opportunity to carry it back to the Center. Thus they discovered the difficulty many people in the Developing World have in obtaining their daily water needs and the true value of the easy availability of clean water we have in our society.
Leah Connell guided the participants in exploring the near-shore environment around one of one of the ponds on the Bray Hollow Nature Conservancy for smaller forms of life that depend on the availability of habitable water. These hand-on activities were able to make a deeper impression on the participants of the importance and value of water to all living creatures.
Finally, before leaving, everyone was able to get “up close and personal” with the nose-wheel tire that went into space and back on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Mission STS-113. This historic item is on loan from NASA and the Eastern NC Regional Science Center, Inc. (DBA Go-Science).
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