Explorers

The Explorers finished off a year of experiments with the now-annual (by popular demand, with the emphasis on the word “demand”) pop bottle geysers activity.

This impressive, rather messy display is the result of a simple physical reaction that happens when two substances meet. In this case, the culprits are the small round candies known as Mentos and carbonated liquid—otherwise known as soda pop. The secret is a process called “nucleation.”

…one soaring flight for Paper-Rocket-Kind.

Over a month earlier we had spent a session building our rockets and had since more-or-less patiently bided our time while lousy weather covered not only our hometown but most of the Midwest. Mother Nature finally relented and sent us a sunny day, giving us the opportunity to at last launch our air-powered rockets into the sky.

In March 2011, the Explorers endeavored to reach for the stars. Well, for the tops of the trees, at least.

In December 2009 the Explorers created bird feeders.