Nemos and Dorys: LSUMNS Special Saturdays

The LSU Museum of Natural Science Special Saturdays program is a long-running outreach series that targets young minds. Held once a month throughout the school year, this series aims to teach young children about science and the world around them. These events cover a plethora of topics and are led by researchers in a variety of departments at LSU, and each talk is followed by a fun, hands on arts and crafts activity. Recently I was able to contribute to this series and led a Special Saturday covering coral reefs and the fishes on them. I organized the talk into the theme of Disney's Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, which the kids absolutely loved. They asked fantastic questions, and were really interested in the topic. After the talk, I showed them museum specimens of the fishes we talked about, and then they proceeded to work on their arts and crafts project. The project was to make paper models of different fishes and the kids had some really creative designs. The parents also got involved and made some really cool fishes! Make sure to check out the pictures below to see what they made. A big thanks to Valerie Derouen, the LSUMNS outreach coordinator, who organized this event, and to Jessie Salter and Link Morgan for helping out with it as well. If you'd like to participate in one of these events make sure to contact Valerie Derouen at the LSUMNS.