Wierd Science

It was Science Fair time..we had 2 and 1/2 months to prepare! Dylan was excited to pick out a project and to be involved...at first. So he chose the mentos and coke project. he also wanted to build a rocket to launch using the power of Mentos, but I that was alot of work...And you would think that we would have taken the opportunity to use ALL the time that we had and to really ROCK the science fair project. One month prior to the project being due we got the supplies needed for the project. And then in the end one week prior to the project we thought about it again. Did the research and came up with our hypothesis. And then the day before, we completed the project...and I might add...doing the bare minimum to get Dylan an A+. I really didnt care about winning...poor Dylan. (: So here are a few pics from our grand experiment.



We went to the Science fair to see all the projects to tell Dylan how great his project is. We knew he would get a participant ribbon and I knew he would totally dig that and be ok with not winning. I told him that there will be alot of projects there that may be better than ours but that for next year we can see how and what they did and do it to win. This year Dylan didnt really know what all the steps were so I was more involved than he was...and i think t hat is how it goes for most. We were looking and came to his projects and it had a blue ribbon...that said honorable mention...which was wierd. So we counted all the blue ribbons to see what was up..there were 10. And then 6 finalist ribbons. Dylan was so excited. Dylan's teacher came up to me and said that the 2 judges were from the Dept. of Defense and after they judged the projects, came up to her to talk to her about Dylan's project. (Dylan's teacher was in charge of the fair) They wanted to know about Dylan and his project. Long story short, they wanted to continue him on to the district but we were missing a few things...darn (:...but that his project was one of their favorites. That made Dylans day and mine too...(: Maybe next year we will rock the science fair...