Photo Gallery

Roach Racing, Glowing Scorpions and Cricket Spitting –Oh My! UT’s NSECT (Natural Sciences Entomology Club of Texas), takes participants creeping and crawling into the world of millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions at Explore UT. (Photo by Marsha Miller)

Four-year-old Tonatiuh Montemayor listens as Dr. Cristina Cabello de Martinez reads a story in Spanish in a presentation called El cuentacuentos cuenta. (Photo by Sasha Haagensen)

Four-year-old Carly from Austin admires the new paper flower she made at the Fiesta Flowers booth on the South Mall during Explore UT. (Photo by Sasha Haagensen)

More than 100 busloads of K-12 students came from across the state to participate in Explore UT. (Photo by Marsha Miller)

Chemistry circus. (Photo by Shaun Stewart)

Hundreds of participants from Explore UT form a living insignia star. (Photo by Jason Eitelbach)

Children of all ages enjoy filling their Explore UT passports with distinctive stamps, chronicling their activities from the day.

Patricio Fernandez, 12, of Porter Middle School, and members of the Travis High School Mariachis perform during Explore UT 2005. (Photo by Marsha Miller)

Four-year-old Andrea Cisneros watches with anticipation as her mother unfolds her papel picado. Cut-paper art in Mexico goes back to pre-Columbian times. (Photo by Sasha Haagensen)

Provost Sheldon Ekland-Olson reads "Yertle the Turtle," a Dr. Seuss book, during a Seuss Sayers reading on the steps of the East Mall. (Photo by Sasha Haagensen)

A Boy Scout displays a double "hook 'em horns" sign while posing for the Explore UT 2005 star photo. (Photo by Shaun Stewart)

Wooden blocks of various sizes and shapes let children of all ages stack their own creations.

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