A couple weeks ago the team went to Gustavus to learn about energy from an "expert". Apparently college kids love make-your-own-cookie, so that's what our team had to start out doing.
They're all 9 years old, which means that they're all halfway to college. Yikes!
The expert we scrounged up is allegedly a Gustavus physics professor. The kids are paying close attention as they learn about the difference between "kinetic" and "potential" energy. (After all the sugar cookies, the kids are currently loaded with potential energy.)
Here the kids are learning something. I'm not sure what, because I was trying to figure out how you play air hockey on such a thin and twisted board.
Here they see how water flow can generate power.
And here one unruly student learns how to use physical energy to make water fly through the air towards other students.
Solar power! (kind of)
I'm sure this is going to be the wave of the future - bicycles in your living room, allowing you to light a single bulb. You and your spouse can take turns biking and reading - it's both educational and healthy!
The highlight of the day was certainly the liquid nitrogen. A balloon, racket ball, bouncy ball and potato were all sacrificed in the name of science. The kids are in a college physics lab, with resources all around, and all they really wanted to see was a potato dropped in liquid nitrogen.
Kids.
I'll have a follow-up post with some interesting videos from the visit, most of them involving a bowling ball.
1 comment:
What a fun opportunity for the kids. By the way, when you were 9 yrs old, I think you would have opted for the potato trick as well.
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