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Mr. I the Science Guy, retired science teacher Ted “Bitsy” Ionta, demonstrates how a cut-up piece of paper becomes a helicopter at the Rumford Public Library on Wednesday. Children’s Librarian Susan Marshall, standing right, looks on.
RUMFORD — The Rumford Public Library kicked off its summer reading program with demonstrations by retired science teacher Ted “Bitsy” Ionta of Dixfield.
Known as Mr. I the Science Guy to many area children and adults, he used horseshoe magnets, plastic bottles, an eye dropper, tin cans, rubber tubing, a balloon, and a small car with wind up wheels to demonstrate his many science experiments to the crowd of 82 on Wednesday.
It was all part of Summer Fest: Build a Better World.
The library is serving free bag lunches this summer from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday to anyone under 18 years old. Children’s Librarian Susan Marshall said the library provides an average of 35 lunches a day.
The next Summer Fest event is Snakes Alive! with Rob White at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 5.
Mr. I the Science Guy, retired science teacher Ted “Bitsy” Ionta of Dixfield, demonstrates the strength of horseshoe magnets with helper Hannah Crews, 10, of Rumford. Ionta was at the Rumford Public Library on Wednesday for the library’s Summer Fest: Build a Better World program.Brock Jackson, 5, left, and Jordyn Whitaker, 6, watch as Mr. I the Science Guy’s wind-up car whizzes by them at the Rumford Public Library on Wednesday.Trai Parent, 9, answers one of retired science teacher Ted “Bitsy” Ionta’s questions at the Rumford Public Library on Wednesday.
