The “SciGirls” episode, titled “Dragonfly Detectives,” saw the three friends from Northwest Indiana catching dragonfly larvae, known as nymphs, under the water of Lake Michigan in order to use them to measure mercury levels in the lake.
The Indiana Dunes National Park held a screening Friday of the PBS Kids TV show “SciGirls,” a program which seeks to encourage young girls to pursue careers in STEM fields, or science, technology, mathematics and engineering. The “SciGirls” episode was shot at the Indiana Dunes National Park and features the girls assisting park scientists in monitoring water quality.
She explained that dragonflies are predators that eat smaller insects, which eat things like algae in the lake containing the mercury the scientists want to measure. Mercury is naturally occurring, but Robertson-Thompson said most of it probably gets in the lake from the heavy industry in the area. Logan Mosley, from left, Saloni Patel, and Luci Robertson stand to be recognized during a screening of a"SciGirls" episode they were recently featured in at the Indiana Dunes National Park Visitor Center on Friday, June 2, 2023.
“It was a really positive experience [being involved with the show],” McDonald said. “We get to talk about science and make it accessible to everyone.”
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