Rutgers Day is BACK!

A crowded RU AFS table outside of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
A crowded RU AFS table outside of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

After Rutgers Day was cancelled two years in a row due to the global pandemic, RU AFS was able to participate in a Rutgers Day this past April! Kiernan Bates, president during this semester, made an incredible hand-drawn table banner for our spot in front of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. We brought up oyster, clam, and scallop shells from the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory and offered them as canvases for anyone to paint on. We had some awesome shell art!

The RU AFS tables, with trivia on the left and shell painting on the right. Each table has packets of candy and lots of opened paint on them, respectively. The RU AFS banner is a blue plastic sheet with a hand-drawn AFS logo, hardshell clam, tautog, and striped bass.
A quiet moment at the table, which was busy nonstop the entire day. Check out the awesome hand-drawn banner Kiernan made!

Anyone was also welcome to test their knowledge at New Jersey fish trivia – answer a question, get a packet of Swedish Fish! Both of these events were so popular that we ran out of shells and Swedish Fish a few hours before the end of the day. For the remaining late afternoon visitors, we walked them through our beach-in-a-box kits and shell ID guides. A successful event for sure, and a welcome return to in-person events!