Noon science at Benjamin's school
We, Doug, Jon and myself, all three of us went to Benjamin's school today, to demonstrate explosion for the "noon science" activity. Benjamin, Doug's son, is a first grader there. This is the first time I have been to an elementary school ever since I left mine. I met Benjamin for the first time. He is a very cute kid, and a very energetic one — as Jon put it. Elementary schools in US last six years like those in China. There seem to be a lot more activities, not all about classroom learning like what I remembered in my elementary school years.
Abbie ordered lab coats for us, with FreeWheel logo on it! Hey, do we look like doctors from FreeWheel?
We were supposed to demonstrate several ways to setup "explosions". Dropping mentos in diet coke is one of them, Doug showed me a famous video on YouTube to make explosions using that. He told me the video became so popular that the guys made it even got invited to David Letterman show. As we were getting it all setup, a kid came by, he saw the diet coke on the table, made faces and said: "mentos in diet coke, that is so old school!..." Today's kids definitely know a lot more than what I used to know at their age...
Crowd control was hard, those kids were so active, easily getting excited, and they jumped on everything...Look, Jon was trying to explain to them what explosion is about, nobody was listening, some were even trying to drink the diet coke.
btw: Benjamin is in this picture too, guess where he is.
We had a great time, and reached agreement on one thing: as much as we are all proud of what we can do in our life, we can not be elementary school teachers
Abbie ordered lab coats for us, with FreeWheel logo on it! Hey, do we look like doctors from FreeWheel?
We were supposed to demonstrate several ways to setup "explosions". Dropping mentos in diet coke is one of them, Doug showed me a famous video on YouTube to make explosions using that. He told me the video became so popular that the guys made it even got invited to David Letterman show. As we were getting it all setup, a kid came by, he saw the diet coke on the table, made faces and said: "mentos in diet coke, that is so old school!..." Today's kids definitely know a lot more than what I used to know at their age...
Crowd control was hard, those kids were so active, easily getting excited, and they jumped on everything...Look, Jon was trying to explain to them what explosion is about, nobody was listening, some were even trying to drink the diet coke.
btw: Benjamin is in this picture too, guess where he is.
We had a great time, and reached agreement on one thing: as much as we are all proud of what we can do in our life, we can not be elementary school teachers
Those kids were pretty smart, plus I think they intimidated Jon! Let's hire some of them.
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