Children learn Building Blunders are OK

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} Zack from the Iowa Science Center showed and explained many different scientific theories and experiments at the Remsen Public Library for the Summer Reading Program on Wed., June 21. Here Zack got the children’s brains going by having them figure out which colored balls (red, yellow, green, and blue) were connected to each other on this Think Tube. At the end, the children learned that somehow all four of the colored balls were connected to each other.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} Carsten and RJ conduct an experiment about the property of water and surface tension, where water would rather stick to itself rather then be separated by something different, like air.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} Eli helped Zack with this demonstration about bridges, force, and stability. Here Eli uses the cables to see how much force it takes to make this bridge straight on the short bridge as opposed to the taller bridge. In conclusion, the taller bridge used less force then the shorter bridge for the cables to make the bridge straight, as the longer cables could more evenly distribute the weight and could work a little less then the shorter cables had to

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} Ella tests out the Tesla Coil, as this working device sends electricity through the air to light the light bulb up, without having to be plugged in. 

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} Kamden, Laiken, and Israel help Zack from the Iowa Science Center learn about forces with this tug of war demonstration. 

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} At the end of the program, children got to try out the Chair of Nails, which doesn’t hurt because the weight and force gets spread across almost 400 nails. Each child slowly sat in the chair to test how brave they were. 

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Myriad} During a Slideshow presentation, the children discovered the history behind four objects that were invented by mistake. Those objects include the slinky, microwave, post-it notes, and x-rays