My Science Fair Project Was Better Than Yours

I remember my 7th grade science fair project pretty clearly. You may think you aren’t interested in what it was, but you should be—because it was fabulous. It was truly unique. I didn’t grow plants under different colored lights and I didn’t build a lame volcano using paper maché and some sticky baking soda and Sprite mixture (or whatever). […]

Gossamer Wings and the Alchemy of Flight

Take one brilliant middle-school science teacher with a love of hang-gliding.   Add a classroom of typical teenagers, a phone book, a stack of printer paper, and a pair of scissors.  Watch something truly magical take place, as a fleet of miniature planes takes to the air on gossamer wings.   Who wants to work […]