Science Fair TR - with pic! (kidstoke)

Just got back from my kid's science fair. She did a project about How Avalanches Work. Was pretty rad; she made a slope out of a cardboard box, half of the slope had a "strong" layer of snow (glue sprinkled with sea salt), the other half was just painted & smooth.

Sprinkle flour on, add some angle, a trigger, half the slope slides, the other half does not.

Pretty rad, proud dad. She was not terribly amped about it at first, but once she saw some pictures, she googled away and found pictures of rounded crystals, printed out the deaths-stats for this season (morbid kid!), etc.

Pic attached. Hope she stays into the ski thing;). Mad chucky-steeze, bragh.




Iain (she's 7, 8 in March, and her favorite school is the Alta Ski School - priorities at a young age;)

http://www.fsp2002.com/pics/sciencefair.jpg

Cool idea for your kids project.

When I was in Grade 8, a buddy and I did our project on ski length vs speed, after an older cousin told me "short skis suck, long skis truck". Our cardboard ski experiments were inconclusive. I guess now I would say fat skis rock.

Good project. Way to go.

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Originally Posted by Mannix

http://www.fsp2002.com/pics/sciencefair.jpg

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Is that a Mulan t-shirt? Cool cartoon about a young woman who avalanches the invaders & saves the country.

:biggrin: How did you get all of the flour out of your beacon?