Saturday, Bostonist checked out the Science Carnival at MIT, the kickoff event to the nine-day Cambridge Science Festival, and decided to take some pictures of the action. There were plenty of opportunities for kids to get involved with science, and if the reaction of one girl during the Cool Science Live demonstration ("I LOVE science!") was any indication, it sounds like we have a few budding scientists—and science writers—on our hands. We'll be attending several other Cambridge Science Festival events all week, so stay tuned!

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I like how the messed-up white balance on the first half of the photos makes the science carnival look like the season of Battlestar Galactica when they're on New Caprica and they tint everything blue to stress it's A Sad Time for Humanity.
Ha. I was waiting for someone to call me on it when a similar fate befell my Tea Party gallery. Suffice to say, I got partway through the thing and realized, "oh yeah, I haven't changed the white balance yet."
Anyway, call me Picasso, this is my Blue Period.