Last week, Mario and I participated in the World Space Week celebration here at the museum. To my surprise, this event was CRAZY Fun! We were placed in charge of the Alka-Seltzer rocket demonstration, where we gave each kid a film canister filled with warm water (about a quarter of the canister) and they had to put half of an Alka-Seltzer tablet into the water, close it up and flip it over.
Next, we did a count down from five while the pressure built up in the film canister until it went shooting up in the air. Everyone loved it, moms, dads, me, and especially the kids. All of their faces just lit up and were amazed! As the canisters were coming down the kids tried to catch them before they fell to the floor. We gave many of them the canisters so they could try the experiment at home. After many demonstrations Mario and I ran out of Alka-Seltzer tablets and ended the fun. It would have been great to get a couple of pictures of the kids doing the demonstration but I didn't have my camera with me and I don't have a camera phone I could have used… I didn't know exactly what we would be doing during SPACE WEEK, and didn't expect that it would be so much fun, but I'm glad it was.
Posted by Explainer Jacqueline Hill
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