This year, Nicole participated in a full fledged Science Fair. After 10 weeks of working through all stages of the scientific method, converting her research plan into a research paper, and creating a display, she and her classmates had one night to present their experiment to two groups of judges. This is their big project for Challenge A, and one they were all prepared for.
In all honesty, there wasn't much inspiration for an experiment, so she picked something from sciencebuddies.com . She thought it would be neat to learn about spherification.
Spherifi- what? haha. I'm a few months into this, and I'm still not 100% sure what it is exactly. Basically, spherefication is taking a liquid or watery food item and adding sodium citrate to it to make the food alkaline. Then you drop it into a bath of sodium...something, I forget...and it stays in little balls. Maybe I should have had her write this blog! haha! She was suppose to be testing how the pH affects the food's ability to become spheres. Chefs use this technique quite often.
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| Spherified Coca-Cola |
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| Measuring the width of the spheres |
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| Spherified Gatorade |
Nicole shines at public presentations, and Friday was no different. She loves this.
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| Giving her presentation to the first set of judges. |
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| They were bold enough to taste her gatorade spheres. |
Nathan & Hannah participated in the community's Geo/Science Fair. Hannah studied sugar in food and learned how to measure out how much sugar is in some of her favorite foods.
Nathan decided to learn about volcanoes. Let's me honest....who can say they have graudated school without making a homemade volcano ?!?
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