 Around 150 middle schoolers were on the Bemidji State University campus today to participate in the college's annual Share the Future in Science and Technology conference. The students started the day off with a keynote speaker. Then they broke off into groups and participated in a few hands-on science activities. Some of the activities included making slime, dissecting a squid, and taking apart a computer. Our own Stacy Christensen was even there to host a session on making a tornado. It's the 26th time we've hosted the Share the Future workshop. It's a workshop whose focus is to promote the STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and the age groups we invite are sixth through eighth graders. Our hope today is to enlighten them as to the very wide variety of careers that are occurring right in the area in which they live. You didn't actually make a tornado, did you? Well, there was little ones in the jars. Oh, you did? Yeah, nice. It was fun. It was a lot of fun getting to talk to the kids and work with them. Oh, that's good. You could take part. Yeah. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.