Innovation & Technology

Curiosity Cube Helps Stoke Lowell Students' Excitement for Science

By Elizabeth Dobbins
Oct 31, 2018 11:20 AM ET
Campaign: Employee and Community Engagement
MilliporeSigma's mobile science lab, the Curiosity Cube, visits the Moody Elementary School in Lowell. Fifth-graders pose for a group photo after exploring inside. SUN/Julia Malakie

Originally posted by Lowell Sun

LOWELL -- Students at Moody Elementary School pressed virtual reality goggles up to their faces Wednesday afternoon outside the Curiosity Cube, a traveling science lab inside a shipping container.

They were in a different, much smaller, world -- the inside of a cell.

"You know what's inside of vesicles?" one of the volunteer instructors, an employee at MilliporeSigma, asked.

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The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

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