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Largest-ever South Side Science Festival puts UChicago STEM in kids’ hands

Thousands of families from across Chicago came to the University of Chicago campus on Saturday for the yearly South Side Science Festival. This was the largest event in the festival’s four-year history, with more than 700 UChicago scientists and 200+ volunteers from across campus sharing STEM with approximately 4,300 kids and parents from across Chicago, more than half of whom were from South Side communities.

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At the festival, King teaches children the conservation of angular momentum by sitting them on a chair on a free-moving pedestal and having them hold a bike wheel vertically. He then gets the tire spinning fast and tells the unaware youngsters to tilt it.
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