Leya Collins, WSC Museum Laboratory Manager holding “Charlotte” a non-venomous Reticulated Python, greets the adults and youths attending the April 20 Inland Empire Science Festival at the Western Science Center in Hemet. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
Hemet Unified School District students and their families and many others enjoyed the annual Inland Empire Science Festival held Saturday, April 20 outside of the Western Science Center Museum and Academy in Hemet.It was even more of a treat for the HUSD students and families as they were given free admission to the WSC Museum where the fossils of prehistoric animals and their histories are preserved and on display at 2345 Searl Parkway.There to greet all of the visitors were Leya Collins, WSC Museum Laboratory Manager and event coordinator Brett Dooley. Collins, with a huge non-venomous python draped around her neck and shoulders, said, “The purpose of the Inland Empire Science Festival is to bring science to the Inland Empire. We want to showcase people from all around the Inla
