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E-Day at the Mall Events

Foil Boats

Participants try their best to construct the meanest, toughest, and coolest boats around . . . out of foil at least. Judging can include creativity and how much weight (in pennies) can be held without sinking.

Bridge Building

In this activity, the objective is simple: build a bridge that can hold as much weight as possible without breaking. The materials given include straws and paper clips. The more pennies your bridge supports, the better bridge you have constructed!

Slime and Sludge

Children mix certain house-hold substances to create slime and sludge. Children can creatively color their creation and enjoy the learning about the properties of these sticky substances.

Balloon Blowing

A simple acid/base reaction takes place inside a bottle with a balloon attached on top, causing the balloon to blow up. Keep the blown-up balloon and observe how fast it falls to the ground!

Egg Drop

This experiment demonstrates concepts such as energy, elastic and inelastic collisions, and strength of materials. Students construct some type of container or device using the materials given to ensure that an egg, when dropped from a certain height, will not break on impact.

Pop Rockets

Children observe how a build-up of pressure in a closed container will eventually lead to the sudden release of the container's contents to the atmosphere, sending the container flying like a rocket!

Mechanical Advantage

Learn how simple mechanical systems can reduce the work needed to do tasks by using the see-saw and pulley systems.

Chromatography

Children watch as the colors on the coffee filter that they color travel at different rates in a process called chromatography.

Off to the Races

Will a water-filled jar or an gas-filled jar reach the bottom of an incline first? And which will roll the farthest? Find out as you race against each other!