Wisest is a program offered to grade six girls who are interested in science and engineering. Grade six girls from selected schools write essays if they are interested in attending. Then the teacher from that school who will be taking the girls on the trip will select the four best essays and tell the writers of the essays that they were selected. The day of the program, we walked to a building in the U of A and went to the place where Dr. Margret Ann Armor would be talking to us. We arrived a few minutes before she started. She talked to us, then she showed us some cool science experiments. First she had a piece of paper that she lit on fire; it burned slowly and it burned into letters. When it 
stopped burning, it read “Hi”. After that, she put red cabbage juice and another liquid in a container, and it turned green which shows that the other liquid is a neutral. She then added dry ice to it, making it orange, which indicated that it is an acid. She added one more liquid to it, making it purple (purple is an indicating colour of bases), but it quickly went back to an acid (orange). Then she froze a banana in liquid nitrogen, but she only froze half of it; with the frozen half she hammered a nail into a wooden board, then she ate the other half. These were just some of the experiments she did.
After that cool presentation, I think everyone was excited to get started on our activities. The activities ranged from extracting gluten from flour to making a picture frame out of two pieces of newspaper that could fit five people in it. These are some of the activities the girls from our school did. After we all got into groups, we went to our first activity. Our activity was food chemistry, where we had to get all the gluten out of flour. She then showed us how vegetables can bleed. One was fresh, the other was frozen. Only the fresh ones bled. We also did a smell test were we had to smell different foods.
In our next activity we made the tallest tower we could out of 20 toothpicks, 6 straws and 1 cup of shaving cream; it was lots of fun. After that, everyone from all the schools that participated came together in one big room and did an activity. In this challenge, we worked in a group with the other girls from our school and made the tallest tower out of one sheet of newspaper, a paper ruler, 6 straws, and 30cm of tape. It was a very difficult challenge. We went back to the place where Dr. Armour talked before. To end the event, she did more experiments, including one where she used grape juice to make sparkling lemonade, milk, water and raspberry smoothie. We feel that it changed our perspectives on science and engineering.
By H2O
stopped burning, it read “Hi”. After that, she put red cabbage juice and another liquid in a container, and it turned green which shows that the other liquid is a neutral. She then added dry ice to it, making it orange, which indicated that it is an acid. She added one more liquid to it, making it purple (purple is an indicating colour of bases), but it quickly went back to an acid (orange). Then she froze a banana in liquid nitrogen, but she only froze half of it; with the frozen half she hammered a nail into a wooden board, then she ate the other half. These were just some of the experiments she did.After that cool presentation, I think everyone was excited to get started on our activities. The activities ranged from extracting gluten from flour to making a picture frame out of two pieces of newspaper that could fit five people in it. These are some of the activities the girls from our school did. After we all got into groups, we went to our first activity. Our activity was food chemistry, where we had to get all the gluten out of flour. She then showed us how vegetables can bleed. One was fresh, the other was frozen. Only the fresh ones bled. We also did a smell test were we had to smell different foods.
In our next activity we made the tallest tower we could out of 20 toothpicks, 6 straws and 1 cup of shaving cream; it was lots of fun. After that, everyone from all the schools that participated came together in one big room and did an activity. In this challenge, we worked in a group with the other girls from our school and made the tallest tower out of one sheet of newspaper, a paper ruler, 6 straws, and 30cm of tape. It was a very difficult challenge. We went back to the place where Dr. Armour talked before. To end the event, she did more experiments, including one where she used grape juice to make sparkling lemonade, milk, water and raspberry smoothie. We feel that it changed our perspectives on science and engineering.
By H2O
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