- April 18, 2024
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Maya and Nicole Taylor warm up before their musical performance.
Mote's high school interns with their summer projects.
Colton and Mike White check out the sharks.
Lei'Asha Battle shows off her facepaint.
Colton White waves at diver Mark Fishman in the tank.
AJ and Jeff Ellis pose with Mark Fishman.
Mote's high school interns show what can be used instead of single-use plastics.
Luke, Lily and Nicole Plummer came with their Mote Camp T-shirts.
Maggie Shoemaker snaps a photo of Jude Metzdorf posing as a manatee.
Aria and Devin Fisher after the former got her face painted.
Ross Johnston talks sharks.
Nicole Plummer snaps Luke and Lily Plummer as sharks and turtles.
Sadie Chawkins shows off Project STOP.
Ramon and Nadira Pavon show off their "dissected paper sharks."
The crowd gathered under the roof, out of the rain for most of the morning.
Michael, Nicole and Maya Taylor grin after a successful musical set.
Finn Campbell tries a drink that produces less waste and has less sugar.
Haley Gill and Hunter Breckerl play a game about overfishing.
Sienna, Katie and Briella Tuttle pose in front of a shark tank.
The mini Kona Ice truck was popular.
The Shark Exhibit at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium was bustling Saturday, Aug. 10. The annual Fins and Fun Family Festival wrapped up the aquarium’s Shark Days for another year. Booths, live music and a diver in a tank for photo ops bumped up both the “fins” and “fun” quotient at the event.
Mote’s high school interns capped off a summer of learning with presentations on overfishing and microplastics. With diagrams, explanatory blurbs, show and tell items and games, the students taught the public a thing or two about keeping oceans safe. Another young participant showed the crowd how protecting the ocean is done with her Project STOP booth. Sadie Chawkins gave her presentation on how we can “Stop Toxic Ocean Pollution.”
Mote’s education specialist, Ross Johnston, gave talks throughout the day in the center of the Shark Exhibit to rapt young audiences captivated by Johnston’s enthusiastic explanations and the shark bones on display. Back in the main exhibit, you could sometimes spot a glittery shark or dolphin on a cheek, courtesy of the oceanic face-painting at the festival.
