The Francis Scott Key Elementary Middle School in Locust Point, Baltimore reached out to the DF for help securing a 3D printer for its library to “enhance our students’ learning experience, providing hands-on opportunities to explore concepts in engineering, design and innovation.” The DF was only too happy to help.
Tag: science
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CSICon 2024
What a fantastic conference! Each year, the Center for Inquiry hosts CSICon — the annual convention of the Center for Skeptical Inquiry. The DF was honored to attend and help support the 2024 conference, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox, who was awarded with the 2024 Richard Dawkins award.
It was a full schedule of enlightening and challenging workshops covering such topics as pseudoscience in medicine, misinformation in media and effective strategies for persuasion.
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Water testing
The Denker Foundation began working with the Spa Creek Conservancy in 2019. The DF supports SCC by both grants and volunteer work, assisting marine biologists from Anne Arundel Community College to gather and test water samples on Annapolis’ Spa and Back Creeks every year. Water sampling involves measuring water temperature, salinity, suspended solids, pH, dissolved oxygen, and bacteria levels. Suspended solids, for example, indicate how far sunlight can penetrate into water, thereby permitting the growth of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). Oxygen indicates the presence of SAV and is crucial for sustaining aquatic life. Bacteria levels determine whether water is safe to swim in.
Conservancies and riverkeepers all around the Chesapeake have been taking water samples to monitor Chesapeake Bay water health for many years. SCC has been water testing on Spa Creek for many years. Water samples are processed in the Marine laboratory at AACC and results are published to the general public.
The DF supports Spa Creek Conservancy in other ways. For more information, click here.
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