EAST LANSING - Michigan State University held its second annual science festival from April 15 to 19th. The five-day free event attracted families from all over the state.

Andrea Kirk is an alumna of MSU Natural Science Department. During the science festival she volunteered in the information booth where she handed out program guides and gave directions to visitors.

“Yesterday I walked through the exhibit with my son. And it was very crowded. I saw a couple hundred people. Today I am volunteering at the booth and we probably have seen a hundred,” she said.

The Lansing State Journal Expo Zone has nearly fifty hands-on science activities, such as a table with skins and skulls of native Michigan animals, and a rocks display with fossils from 300 million years ago, much earlier than dinosaurs.

MSU biochemistry student Eamon Winship shows people how to extract their DNA and visualize it. "Many people didn't know that you can visualize the DNA, and DNA is so central to life that we know on earth."

Winship says with so many medical applications using the knowledge of science, what we see here is just the tip of the iceberg.

Other featured events include presentations from Dr. Scott Sampson about dinosaurs and Art Benjamin on mathematics.