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Posts Tagged: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work
Hear That Buzz? It's World Bee Day!
Hear that buzz? Today is World Bee Day! We celebrate honey bees every day, but they are especially celebrated on May 20, World Bee Day. It's an...
Beekeeper Adelaide Grandia smiles through a pollinator cut-out board. Her grandfather is teaching her beekeeping. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Adelaide Grandia and her grandfather, Dwight Grandia of Gulf Shores, Ala., confer on a bee vacuum device. He is teaching her how to keep bees and recently set up a hive for her. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ariel Cormier, who works in the chancellor and provost offices as manager of Budget and Financial Analyis, guides her twin daughters Casey and Gabrielle, 8, in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. The garden, located on Bee Biology Road, was installed in the fall of 2009. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ariel Cormier shows her daughter, Gabrielle, how to use the bee vacuum device, a catch-and-release activity. At right is daughter Casey. The 8-year-old girls are twins. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ariel Cormier with eight-year-old twin daughters Casey (left) and Gabrielle at the Miss Bee Haven sculpture. It's a six-foot-long mosaic and ceramic sculpture of a worker bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis employee David Hernandez (left) with sons Aayden, 10 (center) and Evan, 8, pose behind the pollinator cut-out board. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis employee Chunying Xu with her son, Andy, look for bees in the bee garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Excitement Surged at the UC Davis Academic Surge Building
Excitement surged at the UC Davis Academic Surge Building on Crocker Lane during the recent "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" (TODS) Day. It was...
Joshua Trombly, 4, eagerly asks for insect identification at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. In back is his brother Daniel, 5. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Checking out the insect specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology are David and Sarah Trombly and their three sons (from left) Joshua, 4, Daniel, 5, and Joseph, 11 months. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey (right), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows insect specimens to Amiyah Robinson, 8, and her mother, Chelsy Robinson, who works for Human Resources. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Wade Spencer, a UC Davis student majoring in entomology, shows jewel beetles to Amiyah Robinson, 8, and her mother, Chelsy Robinson. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Donnelly "Papaya" West of Papaya Pythons, Davis, shows her snakes to Amiyah Robinson, 8, (center) and other excited youngsters and adults at "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A rainbow boa inches closer to Amiyah Robinson, 8, while William Parsons, 6, watches. The Papaya Pythons owner explained "He thinks you're a tree." Amiyah's mother, Chelsy, works for Human Resources, and William's father, Justin Parsons, with the Chancellor's and Provost Office. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sons and Daughters of UC Davis Employees Enjoy Bee Garden
It was "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" Day, and they did. Hundreds of UC Davis employees and their offspring--ages 6 and over--visited sites...
Mother Sarah Robertson supervises her daughter, Isla, 7, and son, Cameron, 4, as they use a catch-and-release device to observe bees up close. Sarah Robertson works at IET Enterprise Applications and Infracture Services. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Chloe Jerng, 8, gets ready to use a catch-and-release device in the haven with her dad, Mark Jerng, an English professor.
Chloe Jerng, 8, of Davis, who is doing research on bees for a school project, scoops up a honey bee in a catch-and-release device for up-close observation.
California golden poppies, the state flower, glow at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven.
Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work!
It's about connecting. It's about learning where parents work and what they do. It's about fun. That's what will happen on Thursday, April 28 during...
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta, is the center of attention. The bee, also known as "the teddy bear bee," is frequently found in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Males cannot sting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Those attending the TODS event on April 28 will be able to get up close to this worker bee sculpture, created by Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, shows butterfly specimens to Caleb and Alia Symkowick-Rose of Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
