After a two-day visit to Washington, DC, to observe Congress in action, Session B of this year’s CCIP (www.fusia.net) exchange visitors visited the American History of Natural Museum (AHNM) on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on July 15.

The museum is one of New York’s most popular attractions, with its Unseen Oceans a draw with a powerful conservation message. Another exhibit, Dark Universe, is narrated by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a popular science educator and head of the planetarium at the museum’s Rose Center for Earth and Space.

"This was my idea to come here,” said Jackson Lai, a student leader from the Open University of Hong Kong. “I was the first student to propose this activity to the group. Some of us went to the Unseen Oceans exhibit -- that’s a special show that requires a separate ticket -- and a few went to see one about the human body."

Activity coordinator Siyu Han from the Macau University of Science and Technology handled the trip logistics. “I was happy to organize this activity. It took some doing to get everyone from Queens to uptown, and groups had to stick together because there are a lot of little kids running around. Luckily we all had the perfect place to meet -- under a dinosaur skeleton."