Photo feature: Fun with science

Published 12:05 am Friday, February 27, 2015

Vidalia Junior High School seventh-grade students Hannah Harveston, left, and Samyni Bell mix together a mixture to create ‘slime’ during a Kids’ Lab program put on by chemical producer BASF. BASF brought every student at Vidalia Junior High School into the gym through the school day to take him or her through experiments that were both fun and gave the students an idea what the company does. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)

Vidalia Junior High School seventh-grade students Hannah Harveston, left, and Samyni Bell mix together a mixture to create ‘slime’ during a Kids’ Lab program put on by chemical producer BASF. BASF brought every student at Vidalia Junior High School into the gym through the school day to take him or her through experiments that were both fun and gave the students an idea what the company does. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)

 

BASF research and development manager Danna Mooney, left, takes VJHS students through experiments as a part of the chemical company’s Kids’ Lab program. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)

BASF research and development manager Danna Mooney, left, takes VJHS students through experiments as a part of the chemical company’s Kids’ Lab program. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)

 

VJHS eighth-grade students Kamryn Washington and Kelany Wilson laugh while their classmate Tommy Ngo shakes a bag with a diaper and an absorbent polymer that the company makes for an experiment. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)

VJHS eighth-grade students Kamryn Washington and Kelany Wilson laugh while their classmate Tommy Ngo shakes a bag with a diaper and an absorbent polymer that the company makes for an experiment. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)