Ducky464 gives you the details of the first senate meeting for the newest group of senators.

As many of you know, the first senate meeting of this term was held Monday, August 17, 2009 in the Greek Theater. I am proud to announce that this event was a great success! Unfortunately, Steve6 could not make it, but have no fear for there were two other senators covering for him!

We started off with Rain15133 (Amber), and she mentioned an awesome idea! She wants to have an add cart system in the satchel. You know, just like the one in Akbar's Face Mall, but instead of sending one face part to someone at a time, you can send them a mass gift of several parts! Amazing, right? It would be so much more convenient!

After that, a lot of people seemed to agree! Good job Amber! That is a fantastic idea!

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. . . experiment, experiment again. OK, so that's not quite how the old saying goes, but it's pretty close! A big part of any kind of science is testing a hypothesis or trying out an experiment, and - when it doesn't work - figuring out what went wrong. The process of trouble-shooting can sometimes be tedious, but it's so exciting when you finally figure out the solution and an experiment actually works!

I was reminded of this earlier today during a phone interview with John Williams on WGN Radio. John has been awesome this year in promoting Science Chicago events and even served as moderator of the Live With Adam and Jamie event in March. He's also a not-so-secret science geek himself, which makes talking with him incredibly fun! But while he's great on the radio and in person, I learned this morning that his real-life science experiments might not be quite ready for prime time.

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