Mackay Museum and Planetarium

Today we had the opportunity to learn outside the school grounds. We began at the Mackay Museum at UNR and had a wonderful tour of the artifacts from early mining, the Mackay Silver, and the wonderful mineral specimens. In addition, thanks to Mrs. Albright, we were able to get a special tour under the building to see how it was retrofitted to be earthquake proof. Very neat tour! Next, we viewed a show at the Planetarium on the universe. Mr. Ruby, the brilliant man that he is, answered all of our high level questions very well. It was a very educational day.