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the Oakland Museum is opening an innovative exhibition in honor of Black History Week. The displays and associated programs will seek to encourage young students in pursuing the creative act. The exhibition shows the level of involvement of black students at various levels of schooling. Prominent scientists have

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emerged from their laboratories to work with students whose exhibits are on display. Seven eminent scientists are honored by the exhibition, among them Dr Robert Thornton, when one is creating and not created when a process of creating one uses his human resource is his cultural conditioning, conditioning,

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his metaphors, his ideas of linguistic, uh, confusion, trial and error on DSO on. So creativity to me, is a sort of a fumbling stage on the furniture in that act of creating is made up of the human qualities on human condition. Ings of the question during

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the creating are these creative exhibits that we see here around us are These are these students demonstrating the creative act Well, I think by all means they're demonstrating the creative act on they are demonstrating that creativity is colorless, is neither black nor white nor yellow human.

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According to Dr Thornton, black students are pursuing the creative act. This exhibit in the Oakland Museum display demonstrates the scientific method. It was created by 1/5 grade student from Manzanita School who wanted to know whether seeds planted at different depths grow differently. Her experiments showed that

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depth does indeed make a difference. Now. A demonstration such as this may seem simple, but it is, in fact, profound. For young Betty White has used the scientific method, which is that the foundation of modern science. The fact that Betty White is black may be of

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interest to us, but in the trial and error world of the scientific method, that is of no importance. Whatever. Bill Hillmann Eyewitness News at the Oakland Museum.