Science Night

Last night APEGGA hosted a “Science Night” at the kids’ school. We went and had fun watching the kids build tinfoil boats, paper airplance, electric motors, newspaper towers, and gak (some kind of slimy silly putty). We also got to watch interesting demos of the structural strength of eggs, the percussive power of baloons filled with hydrogen and oxygen, and the foaming power of baking soda. Mack particularly liked the explosions, and he also seemed fascinated by the minerals that the geologist guys had. Emily was more into the tinfoil boat building, and enjoying the demos with her classmates.

I secretly thought that the chemistry demo with the hydrogen balloons would have been more fun if the chemistry professor giving the demo had shown us how to generate and capture hydrogen at home for some home-based “experiments” since blowing stuff up at home is such good entertainment.

It was so much fun that next year I think I might volunteer to man a table during National Engineering and Geoscience Week at some of the local schools.