Friday, April 15, 2011

Expo

Video Game

There was a board with pegs that lit up on it and the game was that it showed you a shape and you had to press the button whenever you saw the shape. It was not easy because they was shapes that were very similar to the original shape and when the pegs lit up the different patterns you didn’t know when they were coming because, it kept getting faster and faster. They would give you a prize if you had enough points to get to the top of the bar. Sadly, nobody in the room did.

Tesla Coil

clip_image002Our group went into a room with hardly anybody in there the first thing we had to do was sit in the second row and turn out the lights. He said that it might make a little noise but, it made a lot. We also found out that the room smelled like chlorine because, the electricity was giving off Ozone smell. We couldn’t go close to it or else electricity would go through our bodies. It turns out that a crazy man named Nikola invented it.

The Body Machine

The Body Machine was the last room we went to before boarding the bus and inside was a treadmill and they would video tape your legs and then on the computer an avatar would make the same movements as you. Another thing in the room was the bike, on the bike it could tell how strong your legs were. Then, you would write your score down and put it on the wall. The highest score was 780. The last thing in there was these bands that they put on your ankles that vibrated. Next, you were told to close your eyes and you would start falling backwards! You started falling because with the vibrations on your Achilles tendon it would confuse your calf muscles and you would just start falling.

Earthquake!

In the earth room with stuff all about the ground in there, there was a tube filled with sand and water and there was a little house on top. They would let you tap on the tube with a black hammer until the house sank down. Another thing we learned is that when landfills fill up they put caps of grass on them and can form soccer fields. The last thing we looked at was a way to see when earthquakes would come. The guy had us tap the motion detector on a slab of wood, concrete, a water bottle, and the table. Then, on the computer the scale would go up if you hit it hard.

clip_image004Radiation

Inside the radiation and nuclear room they had lots of information about what had happened to Japan. There was also Beanie Babies that had little chips inside them and we had to find them with the radioactive scale. They also had the poles that are melting in Japan. They had a glass box full of mouse traps and ping pong balls but, right when we walked in it went off and, we didn’t get to see it because it takes 30-45 minutes to set up.

By: Rachel

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