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This week, Molly went to Space Design Camp at the nearby Robinson Nature Center which houses our local planetarium. She had a great time and packed in a ton of stuff during the three days of camp, including:

• Learning about space in the planetarium, with two planetarium shows per day
• Making a comet with dirt, sand, water, and dry ice. (Note that an adult, Star Doc, handled the dry ice. No children were harmed in the experiment)
• Playing with a large parachute
• A competition to “land” a water balloon dropped from up high like the Mars rovers. Molly’s team used:
  • a milk carton landing vehicle
  • a cloth parachute
  • suspension strings
  • straws and a paper plate for structure
  • some balloons
  They were the only team to successfully land the water balloon without popping it.
• Engineering crafts like:
  • Making paper airplanes (including some pretty exotic designs involving rings of paper and straws
  • The air-powered car she is holding here after returning from her last day of camp

Here’s a close up of Molly’s car. You blow up the balloon, then let go and the air pushes out the straw to power the car.

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