CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Third grade students from Belle, Chesapeake, and Mary Ingles Elementary Schools in eastern Kanawha County made their way to the Clay Center in Charleston Thursday to enjoy a different form of learning science.

For a third consecutive year, Arclin Amines, a chemistry-based manufacturer in Belle, hosted over 100 students at its STEM celebration. The third graders learned solubility, density, and got to be a part of endothermic and exothermic chemical reactions. Students also got to produce bouncy balls at a polymer expiration station.

Amy Berry, a librarian at Chesapeake Elementary who took a group down to Charleston, says her third graders

“They absolutely loved it,” Berry told MetroNews. “The hands-on experience was the best thing for them, and they are very interest

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