Wind, Fire and Science!

On Wednesday, our Eighth Grade boys used fire, tape and a lot of ingenuity to solve a series of team challenges at during Science Day at Mount Saint Joseph High School. In a Chemistry Lab, the boys used a Bunsen burner to cook a number of metallic salts and identify each sample by the resulting flame color. In a Physics Lab, two teams successfully constructed a bridge capable of holding 100 glass marbles using just six manila folders and one meter of duct tape. The final challenge in an Environmental Science Lab involved the design of a wind-driven turbine that could generate electricity. One of our teams designed the most efficient turbine of the day!