The science fair isn't until Thursday, but we've gotten some pretty good mileage out of it so far. Spencer decided to investigate how different structures hold up during earthquakes. So he made a bunch of Lego buildings (and I think Eva helped build at least one), and then he took all of his buildings to a lab at CU that has a shake table. It's fun to build things with Legos, but it's even more fun to velcro said structures and shake them until they fly across the lab in a million pieces. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get the picture.
And speaking of the science fair, next year the kids won't be participating in the COVA science fair. They'll be participating in
The Academy science fair. The kids all got into a charter school we've been hoping for, so come August, they'll be packing their lunches and carrying their backpacks out the door. And Spencer and Eva will have to wear UNIFORMS. And tuck in their shirts. And wear belts. And march in straight lines. Like the children Von Trapp. Liesl! Friedrich! Marta!
Look how nice and neat their feet look all lined up like that.
But back to the science fair. Rebecca actually did her project almost a year ago, so all she had to do was pull it out of the crawl space, dust it off, and spiff up the graphs. She investigated whether or not distilled salt water could be used to irrigate crops.
