[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English, [00:02.43]this is the Education Report. [00:05.57]It was not just another day in a classroom recently [00:10.15]for some young people in Washington D.C. [00:14.35]Student volunteers visited the Smithsonian [00:18.15]National Museum of Natural History [00:20.75]to test a new program. [00:23.41]Some students explored the mysteries of human bones, [00:28.26]other students examined an insect under a microscope. [00:33.72]The student volunteers were among the first [00:37.07]to help test a new exhibit at the museum. [00:41.43]The program has an unusual name, [00:44.94]spoken as Q?rius and written as Q, ?, R, I ,U, S. [00:54.15]The exhibits are designed so young people [00:57.51]can learn about science by taking part in experiments. [01:01.85]Program combines the newest technologies [01:05.65]and scientific equipment [01:07.47]with more than 6,000 museum objects, [01:11.27]both real and digital. [01:13.72]Students from local schools helped develop the exhibit. [01:18.62]Teachers will bring their science students [01:21.48]to the exhibit in the mornings. [01:23.23]In the afternoons, the exhibits will be open to everyone. [01:29.46]Many of the students already have their favorite [01:33.31]activities at the center. [01:35.02]Nate Reistetter, who is 13 years old, [01:40.12]said he liked exploring the specimen drawers. [01:44.09]"There was a cast of a dinosaur bone [01:46.74]and you can scan the QR code on the computers [01:50.70]and it will tell you all about where it was found [01:53.25]and all sorts of stuff about it," he said. [01:56.45]Addie Alexander is 12 years old, [01:59.73]she likes the bee display. [02:02.43]Addie said the bumble bee and the yellow bumble bee [02:07.09]when they're not under the microscope [02:09.74]look pretty much the same except one's bigger than the other. [02:14.19]But she said when she looked at the two insects [02:18.11]under the microscope, they were very different. [02:21.52]Student Ben Werb said he likes the learning center's openness, [02:27.12]and he enjoyed in an exhibit that lets people [02:30.92]use their senses to learn more about objects. [02:34.97]For example, he said a butterfly smells a little like tea. [02:40.44]Involving the senses -- smell, touch, hearing -- [02:46.31]is one of the exhibit's major goals. [02:49.28]At one display, [02:51.06]students recreated the sounds of insects called crickets, [02:56.36]and they handled human bones in a laboratory. [03:00.51]The scientific investigation of human remains [03:04.86]is called forensic anthropology. [03:08.72]It is often used to identify a person [03:12.08]who has died and to learn the cause of death. [03:16.03]Olivia Persons, who is 18 years old, [03:20.09]is one of seven teens who helped develop the space, [03:24.64]She said the laboratory was her favorite display area. [03:29.50]"There is a lot of digital stuff, [03:32.41]there is a lot of computer screens and touch screens, [03:36.26]but in here they are actually able to touch real human bones." [03:40.12]Q?rius can also be found online, [03:44.32]this means visitors can continue their experiments [03:48.48]after they leave the museum. [03:50.88]And that's the Education Report From VOA Learning English. [03:56.43]I'm Jerilyn Watson.