Science Club – 4/12/24

Our new cohort of budding Scientists and returning Year 8s and 9s have thoroughly enjoyed our combustion demonstrations this week. We had some keen volunteers as Mr Stafford and Dr Lane put on a fiery show with some key concepts about chemical reactions! We had some methane bubbles and burning icing sugar just to mention a few. We also demonstrated combustion of flammable substances and how we can add oxygen into these reactions to make them bigger and release more energy. I think it’s safe to say the whoosh bottle was a favourite, using ethanol as a fuel. Thank you to our technicians for their enthusiasm with planning and setting up for our Science clubbers every week!

Please note – no children were harmed during these experiments.

Mrs Ayub, Mr Stafford, Dr Lane, Dr Glass and Ms Moussallati