The Science Club held their annual Fire and Ice event Wednesday, Sept. 18.
Attending students could hold fire and eat ice cream made with liquid nitrogen.
“I think you’re safe saying it’s been over 25 years now,” Dr. Stephen Leonard said.
Leonard serves as the faculty mentor for the club, allowing students to lead the club.
Fire and Ice serves as the club’s opening event each year.
“I think it helps get first year science students plugged into community. And also, like, draws other people, not from the sciences,” Leonard said.
The club holds events throughout the year covering many focuses of science.
“I enjoyed these events because the upperclassmen were welcoming and cultivated a fun atmosphere,” Kalyne Oliver , a third year student and senior marketer for the club, said.
Leonard said some events are blowing up pumpkins, building wreaths of campus fauna, dissecting hearts and taking field trips around the state.
“Science Club is for everyone. If you were at all interested in doing a fun event, don’t be afraid of not knowing anybody,” Leonard said. “It’s a welcoming place where you could show up and get to do a fun, hands-on thing and realize that everyday science is an interesting thing.”
Science majors make up the majority of the club with others across various studies.
“Although these activities were made possible with science, you don’t have to be a science major to enjoy them,” Kalyne Oliver said.
Promoting events, Oliver markets the fun aspects of science.
“It’s just hard to get people involved sometimes, if you’re not science majors,” Taryn Van Wyngarden said.
Van Wyngarden, a senior bio-chem major, is one leader of the Science Club.
“I was looking for friends and then I loved what they did, so I decided to help them do it,” Van Wyngarden said.
Holding these events, the club hopes to show a different side of science.
“We have food, we have fun, why not? We’re going to be holding fire later tonight, how is that not cool?”
The club also serves as a training ground for upperclassmen.
“I think it’s really helpful for the people in science club, because they get comfortable, like, presenting science to other people, they get a leadership role to be in charge and learn how to plan and organize and keep a budget,” Leonard said.
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