A little while ago, we told you about The Flame Challenge, a contest that gets scientists to answer complicated questions in the language of an 11 year old. A bunch of boys in Grade 6 worked with Mr. Weber as judges for some
A little while ago, we told you about The Flame Challenge, a contest that gets scientists to answer complicated questions in the language of an 11 year old. A bunch of boys in Grade 6 worked with Mr. Weber as judges for some of the entries; some of the ones we judged were really great, and some were... well, not so good. Yesterday, the finalists for the contest were announced: there are three written entry finalist and three video entry finalists. The Grade 6s who worked with Mr. Weber will be able to vote for the ones that they think are the best. Which ones do you think are the best?
While looking for a new challenge question for this week, Mr. Weber came across a really interesting website:
The flame challenge began a couple of years ago when actor (and founding member of Stony Brook University’s Center for Communicating Science) Alan Alda was wondering about a question he had when he was 11 years old: “What is a flame?” He had been told by a teacher that it