Science Fair

The other week Austin came home from The other week Austin came home from school and said he was working on a science project.  The project had to be one where you tested it on a group of people.  My first thought was, "Oh brother, what on earth is he going to do???"  He actually came up with a fun idea!


He decided take the game Simon (seen below)

 

(from my childhood-Thank goodness mom and dad held on to the game we had!) and test to see if boys or girls have better memory.  Pretty clever idea!

So, they had a designated evening at school where everyone set up their stations and did their testing for their project.    There were a lot of different ideas there that night.  Some included "Can you tell if it is a box cake or a home made cake?"  "Can you tell organic fruit from non organic fruit?"  (Honestly, a lot of them had to do with food and tasting.)

Austin had a line at his station most of the evening!  I think all the adults enjoyed seeing a game from their childhood, and all the kids were just having fun with an old game. 

Austin found.....

boys have a better memory!  (I think this only applies to games,  I still wonder if he would test in other areas if girls would win  ;) 

He had a great time doing this, and I am excited to see what he might come up with next year.