The Royal Bath & West show – brilliant and wet!
Blogging science to life
Fri 4 June 2010, Written by: Nicole
At-Bristol team have returned from a lovely day at the Royal Bath & West show! The sun and At-Bristol were out in force yesterday on the Destination Bristol stand of the Bath & West show.
We had lots of fun chatting to the crowds, showing them science tricks and giving them the chance to try their hand at design and engineering with the ‘tin foil boat’ challenge!
Everyone got a square of tin foil the same size with which to make a boat, of their own design. The first test was to see if the vessel floated and after that the real challenge began; to see how many marbles the boat could hold before sinking and meeting a watery end! It was great to see family members battling it out against each other and good to know good old-fashioned sibling rivalry isn’t dead!
Thanks to everyone who had a go - there were some really impressive scores, and by the end of the day the leader board looked like this:
1. Jake - 60 marbles
2. Josh - 48 marbles
3. Thomas – 43 marbles
4. Jessica – 41 marbles
5. Henry and Charlie – 35 marbles
7. Harry – 33 marbles
8. Lucy and Milly – 29 marbles
10. Catherine and Emily – 28 marbles
Well done to Jake for his whopping score and to Josh and Thomas – you all win a family ticket to At-Bristol!
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