Last Saturday we loaded up 2 vans with kids & parents and headed to the Girls Inc. Science Festival where there were tons of booths full of fun, interesting Science! Starting off we pretended to be a satellite delivering programs to Earth. One child was Earth sitting in a rotating chair holding a bucket, while another child was the satellite blowing q-tips through a straw(delivering programs) into the bucket. The kids also learned about solar panels and got to create their own lava lamp. Next the girls that were with me, Samantha, Gloria, Maria, & Alfa, were in an Engineering contest. They were challenged to build a structure that was the tallest & the strongest to hold a ball and they WON!! We have some future Engineers among us!
Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles! Another favorite booth was making bubble windows & turning their hands into a bubble using soapy water & CO2! Talk about COOL, the kids loved this & didn't want to leave! In between the booths Radio Disney entertained us with music & some sweet dance moves, which all the girls loved! As our time can to an end, we finished with some fun biology by getting to extract DNA from strawberries! Trinity students did a great job teaching the steps involved with this experiement. It was such a great day & I loved watching the kids light up with excitement as they learned how cool Science can be!
Although I'm a little biased, this is one of my favorite field trips to date! I can't rave enough about how EXCELLENT the entire event was!! Great participation by companies, exciting and entertaining booths, high energy...basically everything you need to inspire kids to dream big!
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