Your Coolest SCIENCE Project at School
I'm dying to know what eveyone's coolest science class project was in school. Mine was probably when we hooked up a flexi-cam (a microscope camera) to one of the school's TVs and we got to watch Ameabas (spelling?) float around on the T.V. Boring, yet oddly cool.
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I don't know about coolest but the thing that stands out most in my mind is lighting magnesium strips on fire. Which can blind you if you look directly at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimshurst_machine
Two kids in my class did that once too. My brother also made a parabolic dish that could pick up sounds from over 100 feet away. That was pretty cool.
The coolest thing I ever did was build bridges out of balsa wood and then destroy them. Not very exciting, but we did get full credit.
Nah, it's been done.
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I knew plenty of people in high school who made hot boxes, but how'd you get away with it in class?
I won third place.
Me and a friend/classmate/ex-girlfriend did perform a number of liquid nitrogen demonstrations in front of a class of young-graders. We made ice-cream, and finale'd the event with a dumping of excess Liquid Nitrogen upon hot concrete.
I learned a fuckload about SCIENCE that day, including the fact that:
A) A little splashed Liquid Nitrogen upon one's shirt will not do anything except evaporate.
C) Liquid Nitrogen, Egg-Beaters, Half-and-half, and chocolate syrup make a delicious treat.
I'm convinced he gave me bonus points on a test for drawing a cat on the bottom of the page...
Also, he'd often devote half the classtime to the homework that was due that day, and not accept it until it was perfect, which kinda made it into classwork.
He sang some pretty cool songs, though. They still get stuck in my head from time to time.
The only thing I remember from chem is this, a VERY IMPORTANT life lesson:
Hot glass looks like cold glass.
except the kid who was burned. heh heh.
At school this year, me and a couple of friends have what has now taken the name of Project Chaos (it sounds less cliché in Spanish). The idea is basically to create as much chaos as possible inside the classroom, or if possible school. For example, I took one of those orange traffic cones from the entrance/parking lot to the classroom, and put it on top of the lockers. Not a single teacher noticed it for about a week.
Another example is that everytime someone makes a presentation about a president (for History class each student has to make a presentation about one of Ecuador's presidents), we take the picture, and put it in the highest part of the wall, for which we have to move the lockers next to the wall and stand on top of them, since the wall is like four meters tall. We also have put other things there, like stickers of every presidential candidate we can get (it's elections for president this year in Ecuador). The best part is, no one knows how the pictures get up there.
However, our biggest caper yet took place two weeks ago. I had one of those 3M spray glue extra-strong thingies, and during recess, we pasted socks, a pair of boxers, and a heck of a lot of flyers to the wall. We also drew a doorbell next to the door of the classroom, and we drew millions of elves, dwarfs, and leprechauns in the whiteboard with permanent marker, and then sprayed glue all over it. Then we turned a picture of Ecuador's coat of arms upside down, and pasted an empty bottle of coke to the picture of a saint, so it would look like he was having a drink. It was nifty.
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