Archive for July, 2009

Session 2, Day 4, 2009

Today campers made flying and floating contraptions to test inside of wind tubes, ’stomped’ handmade rockets high into the sky, and built crazy mazes for a marbles to travel on.

Building contraptions to put into the wind tubes.

The marble path wraps around the board!

Getting ready to stomp the rocket.

Lift off!

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Session 2, Day 3, 2009

Today Exploratorium scientist, Paul D, came to our class with lots of different magnets and showed us some cool things to try. We put a donut magnet on the end of a pencil and then dropped another magnet on top of it- it looked like the magnet that was dropped passed straight through!

Experimenting with magnets

Making [...]

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