We put on a wonderful after-school program in partnership with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife SOLE program.  We worked with close to 200 students and family members during the two hour program, and had great help from Dan Sullivan in staffing the vertical caving tower.

Check out these great photos by Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff:

Above, finishing a fun trip through CaveSim. Below, having a blast on the CaveSim tower while learning the physics of simple machines.

Above, fun in the CaveSim squeezebox (with some good lessons about fractions). Below, Dave does a carbide lamp demo with a working acetylene light, while teaching chemistry concepts and vocabulary (like “exothermic reaction.”)

Have we mentioned that we’re passionate educators?  Dave teaches students that they, like him, can take what they learn in school and combine it with their passions to do something amazing.