Yesterday, February 8th, 2012, the White House held it's second annual science fair. This gave the opportunity for 100 student winners of science, technology, engineering, and math competitions from across 45 states to show off their science projects to the president. Bill Nye, the science guy and other well-respected educators and leaders from the science and engineering community were also able to witness this event. One of the stand out science projects was from a 14-year old kid named Joey Hudy, an 8th grader from Phoenix, AZ. His project was a compressed air-powered cannon that shoots out marshmallows 175 feet in the air. President Obama looked very impressed by this, and all the other projects at the fair. He announced several new initiatives regarding education and science that day as well. I thought this was a really interesting article, because it shows how creative these kids really were, and it's good to see the president hosting educational events like this that may benefit them in the future. So take it upon yourselves to read it and view the video along with it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Here's a link to the article and a video:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57373664-1/obama-shoots-marshmallow-in-the-name-of-science/?tag=mncol
That is very interesting what they did at the white house science fair. It comes to show how technology is coming along in the world today.
ReplyDelete@rjacobs Exactly. These are some pretty smart, talented kids. I never heard of any president hosting science fair's for young kids to participate in. It really goes to show you that Obama cares about education and making sure our youth is on the right path.
ReplyDeleteMan kids are getting smarter by the minute
ReplyDeleteThese kids are our future for sure. With kids like this, there is no telling what kind of technology we will have in the future.
ReplyDeleteGreat overview! The questions were a great idea. I noticed that majority of the class had similar questions so it helped us better understand as a whole. William you are right, kids are our future. The White House Science fair was a good idea and I am excited about our future.
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