by William, Denny, and Elspeth

Today, we awoke with the luxury of a little extra sleep, since our wake-up time was 9:00. After eating breakfast and going through our morning routine, we headed up to the science classroom to do a Zoom meeting with Sasha Seroy, PhD, a lecturer in oceanography at the University of Washington. She had us go through two activities concerning scientific communication, which in simple terms is how scientists are able to communicate with their audience, as the name suggests. In the first activity, we had to explain how ocean acidification impacted mussels to a politician, kindergartener, grandmother, and several others. This really showed how much you had to change the wording of your messages according to your audience! Next, we drew comics about marine animals. As it turns out, Sasha draws her own comics titled Interviews with Invertebrates! (By the way, you can find her @IWIComics on Instagram.) 

After we bid her farewell, we had lunch and embarked upon our final activity of the day: some time at the beach! People both worked on their projects and enjoyed the beach until it eventually came time to head home.