The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory hosted Family Science Night on July 10, 2007. Children and families participated in a wide variety of activities, ranging from making ice cream and crafts to face painting and playing with hagfish slime. A second Family Science Night will be held on Thursday, August 16. For more information, please call 207-288-3147.

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Children make crafts out of sea shells.	A MDIBL student paints sea creatures on the side of a participant.
Children make slime to learn about how a hagfish defends itself in the ocean.	A mother and son learn about starfish and other tidal creatures.
Families make ice cream.	Proving that science can be fun, a MDIBL student illustrates a property of lipid matter.