While Stanley was at ARI for a visit, he also helped out at SEE ASU 2004.SEE ASU was an annual event for school children throughout Arizona. Over 400 kids came to learn about different science projects sponsored by Arizona State University.
Here is the ARI staff working at the SEE ASU event.
Back row: Tatsuya, Steve, Alanna, and Jason
Front Row: Kim, Oralia and Edie
Stanley helped the staff out at the booth. The project theme was to show kids that archaeology is a science. Archaeologists use hypotheses, models, and test data to determine the answer to some scientific question. Archaeologists need to know math, biology, geology, ecology, even pyschology, physics, minerology, statistics, geography and a whole lot about human behavior like politics, religion, literature, economics, and ethnic identity.
This is Caley. He is a student with the Institute of Human Origins (IHO). These are the folks in Anthropology who study really early man, the australopithecines and other early hominid types. IHO has a spectacular website that has recieved lots of awards. Click here to go to the web site Becoming Human.
One of the things that IHO is most famous for is Dr. Johanson and the discovery of Lucy in Africa. This is Stanley with Lucy. Lucy is a 3.18 million-year-old hominid skeleton belonging to the species Australopithecus afarensis. Forty percent of her skeleton was recovered. She was named after the Beatles song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" which was playing on the radio when the excavation crew was celebrating her discovery.
Stanley visited some of the other exhibits. Here he is in the jaws of a giant skull and next to a cast of an early hominid. Can you tell what other animals Stanley saw? 
Here is Stanley with the Moon Buggy.
Arizona State University also has a strong connection with the two rovers on Mars. To learn more about the Mars project try this link. The ASU Mars project has recently been featured in National Geographic!
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