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By Relana Flores

If you live in the Los Angeles area and you have never gone to The California Science Center in Exposition Park, let me be the first one to tell you that you are missing out on an opportunity for great family fun. Exposition Park, which is located across the street from The University of Southern California (USC)
is the home of The Natural History Museum, The California African-American Museum, The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and of course the California Science Center. The science center is the home to over 100 hundred exhibits. These exhibits include the creative world exhibit where guests have the opportunity to explore many different hands on activities such as demonstrations of human advances in communication and how to build solid structures that do not collapse under pressure. Other exhibits at the science center include air and space exhibits, the science court and science plaza, and the new ecosystems exhibit.

Although all of the exhibits are fun and informative, the ecosystems exhibit includes live animals. In the ecosystems exhibits extreme zone you can experience what it is like to be in the desert during a flash flood. You can also see live tortoises, chuckwallas (herbivorous lizards), and scorpions. In the kelp forest you can walk through the bottom of a huge tank filled with kelp and fish. In the river zone you can experiment with the flow of water and experiment with the fluidity of air. In the island zone you can check out the tropical fish and observe the island lizard. There are enough things to do at the science center to keep you and your family entertained and educated for hours. In addition to the exhibits mentioned above,you can also take in an IMAX movie or one of the special exhibits. While the IMAX tickets and special exhibits will cost you, general admission to the California Science Center is free.

By Ari Alhadeff

One of the best degrees that someone can get right now is a computer science degree. There are literally thousands of jobs that are part of computer and technical fields, and computer technology is becoming more and more important to the work force as a whole. For anyone who is interested in computers or technology at all, or even for someone who just wants a degree in a field that will be around for a while, a computer science degree is a great option. Once this is decided, however, it is necessary to find the best colleges for computer science degrees.

So many people are getting their computer science degrees that it has become very important to get a degree from a top college or university. The name of the school that a potential employee attends can be the difference between just and interview and getting the job. This makes finding the best colleges for computer science extremely important. There are two main places that computer science degrees can be found. You can get a computer science degree online, or you can get one offline. For the more hands-on degrees, a campus education is better. However, for degrees that have a lot of theory rather than practice, and online degree will work great.

Best colleges for computer science on campus:

Harvard school of engineering and applied sciences: Bachelor in CS. This degree plan offers the CS overview with the additional benefit of coming from one of the greatest schools in the world.

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