This is my new project: the 'Museum of the sea'. Well it's one of the things I'll be working on this year. The idea is great: we want to create a hands-on science centre for kids from poor communities around the university. The kids will learn about boats, about the sea and about the environment. All very hands-on: they'll get to learn how to build miniature boats, how to sail, they'll observe stuff under a microscope and will get to do some real science out in the mangrove around the centre. The area is very beautiful, but very polluted too. It's in the Guanabara Bay and like the rest of the bay it has been badly affected by pollution - everyone dumps absolutely everything in the bay, and has been for years. Sewage, chemicals, rubbish, it all ends up there. So the idea is, of course, to raise awareness among the kids by showing from close what is happening to their local environment, and teaching them that there are alternatives to dumping everything in the sea...
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