Boy Scouts are helpful

Boy scouts and their leaders set up tables, with Walker Kelly (center-rear, maroon shirt) directing and help from Steve Tait (left-rear).

Naked tables

In the foreground are table that are set up and ready for covering. In the background, Walker Kelly, boy scouts, and other volunteers survey the scene and determine what to do next.

Roll out the paper

Otto Rajtora (foreground) and another scout leader roll out paper to cover a pair of tables. The wood tables are splintery and quite nasty; we cover them to give an attractive, splinter-free surface for the student exhibits.

Cut the paper to length

Covered tables

Here a section of tables has been covered.

Skirts

Volunteers staple skirts around the covered exhibit tables. The skirts make the tables look nice, and allow the students to hide stuff underneath.

All done

These tables are ready for Junior Team exhibits to arrive on Saturday morning.

(No, it’s not a trick of the light. We have several sets of skirts, in different shades, and sometimes we let the different shades mingle.)

All done

These tables are numbered and ready for Junior Biological exhibits.

More power

Walker Kelly lays an extension cord to provide electricity to Atreya Dey’s exhibit table, while Linda Kelly watches. Walker is using gaffer’s tape for this because, unlike duct tape, it leaves no sticky residue when it’s removed.

Even more power!

Walker tapes over the extension cord, to protect it from passing feet (and vice versa).