'Mad' about science

Kids flock to mad scientist exhibit in its final days

Georgia Southern University Museum Visitor Services Coordinator Billy Tyson, top, helps Grayson Lewis, 4, explore the Touch and Discover exhibit at "The Mad Scientist's Laboratory" Exhibit at the Georgia Southern University Museum.

w011415 MAD SCIENCE EXHIBIT 01 — Georgia Southern University Museum Visitor Services Coordinator Billy Tyson, top, helps Grayson Lewis, 4, explore the Touch and Discover exhibit at "The Mad Scientist's Laboratory" Exhibit at the Georgia Southern University Museum.

Schools and home-school groups have been scrambling to schedule tours before the Mad Scientist Laboratory disappears from the Georgia Southern University Museum, as it will Jan. 25 to make room for a new exhibit on World War I. Surrounded by a small group of eager 3-year-olds from the Jenkins County Head Start program in Millen, the museum’s education graduate assistant, Lilith Logan, 23, held a piece of shiny nitinol wire. “It demonstrates the same properties as a rubber band,” Logan said. “Has everybody played with a rubber band before?

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