Tour RCC Aquaponics Lab April 13-15 During N.C. Science Festival; N.C. Museum’s Lisa Gatens to Visit RCC April 16

Randolph Community College will host a Spring Science Festival featuring tours of its Aquaponics Lab April 13-15. In addition, you can learn about North Carolina’s unique mammals with special guest Lisa Gatens at RCC on Thursday, April 16. The tours and speaker are official events of the 2015 North Carolina Science Festival.

Do you know how to grow fresh vegetables without soil? Randolph Community College’s Aquaponics Lab is a working model of this food production system that raises fish and plants together. Discuss the sustainable ideas surrounding this innovative technique with RCC’s science faculty members. This year’s tours will also feature new raised plant beds outside. To schedule a tour, contact Kevin Jones, Department of Science lab facilitator, at 336-633-0232 or kmjones@randolph.edu.

On Thursday, April 16, at 1 p.m., the public is invited to hear Lisa Gatens, curator of mammals for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. The event will be in the R. Alton Cox Learning Resources Center auditorium. Seating for the free event is limited; go to www.randolph.edu/scievents to reserve your tickets.

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