Science Night at Robertson!

Science Night is a free event for children of all ages! Different stations were set up for you to enjoy and experience the world of science.

I was at the Balancing Acrobats station all night.

The challenge was to balance the acrobat on the tip of your finger or on top of a pencil.

Do you think you can do that?

                       Several tried ...          

                                                      

      

                                                                                   

                                 and all were successful!

So how does this work?

The acrobats had pennies in each hand. Gravity was pulling the acrobat down from its hands, so the centerpoint or fulcrum was the acrobats nose. The acrobat was balancing on his nose. Once you found this out, balancing the acrobat was a piece of cake! Amazing huh???? 

If you missed Science Night this year, make plans to attend next year! We had a great time learning cool stuff about Science!