Science Project - Aaron

I know I've said it before, but I really hate the Science Fair. (Unfortunately for me, my kid's teachers don't care about my opinion!)

Aaron and Thomas both had the Science Fair this year.  Spencer had the option of doing it and was thinking about it until I told him NO WAY.

I have zero pictures of Thomas' experiment 'cause he did it in his room one day and was finished before I even knew it.  Hello, Mr. Independent. He and Aaron both built bridges out of Popsicle sticks and then tested their capacity to hold weight.

This is Aaron's bridge at the beginning. He kept adding weight to the bucket hanging below to test how much weight it would take to break the bridge.  You can guess I'm sure, that Stick was heavily involved in this project, since it's not "put a celery stick in colored water and see what happens" which is my style of science project. (Oh, come on, celery is exciting!)

Spencer was recruited to record the stats.  (I have no idea why he is wearing my slippers.)

Starting to bend a little.

It was really surprising how much weight we added before the bridge broke. Eventually they had to add a second bucket.

You can see below that the diagonal sticks are starting to break off.

Finally! The bridge shattered and the buckets of weight hit the ground.

I will begrudgingly admit that it was a fun project.

Stick pointed out that it was flawed a little because the deck of the bridge was too thick to get accurate results. (Those engineers and all their technical expectations!)

Despite this, Aaron had a good time and I think he learned a thing or two, which is probably the point of the Science Fair.

(Nevertheless, ugh.)

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The science fair was an 'extra credit' option for Nate this year. He had ZERO interest in doing it. I wanted to kiss his face off when he told me that. Science fair - blech.

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Wow, that little puppy held a lot.

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Um wowzers. Awesome.

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