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Mad Science: Winter Wonders — Sat. Feb. 8 at 10:30 am

Watch as our special Snowman is de-frosted right before their eyes! See an Insta-Snow explosion! The Mad Scientist will introduce the audience to a mysterious North Pole rock that turns out to be Dry Ice. All will have a wonderful time of giddy goodness and festive fun!

Recommended for Kindergarten and up.

Saturday, February 8th at 10:30 am in the Assembly Room

Dr. Kwan Kew Lai joins the Belmont Story Project

Listen to Dr. Kwan Kew Lai discuss her humanitarian work around the globe, as an infectious disease specialist. Dr. Lai first volunteered abroad in the aftermath of the South Asian Tsunami, in 2005, and has since been a part of nearly 30 global humanitarian relief efforts. In this interview, she discusses the South Asian Tsunami; her work in Liberia and Sierre Leone during the 2014 Ebola outbreak; her time in Bangladesh, in 2018, helping Rohinga refugees fleeing religious persecution in Myanmar; and her most recent volunteering stint in Yemen, in 2019, where a cholera outbreak has occurred due to the ongoing civil war.

View a full list of Dr. Lai’s humanitarian efforts, since 2005.

If you are interested in becoming a part of Belmont’s oral history project, contact Nancy McColm at [email protected] or 617-993-2870 or Joanna Tzouvelis at [email protected]

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