March 2023 archive

Celebrating Science Class

Hello readers,

We got a new assignment in language arts: to write about a different class. I will be talking about science class. Science class is very fun, exciting, and interesting. One of the projects we did recently in science was our heat shield project. In this project, we were supposed to design a heat shield out of the materials provided to prevent an egg from cooking at 3500 degrees Fahrenheit for a duration of 3 minutes. We were assigned in to groups of three. In my group, there was me, David, and Jack. The name of our group was the Raw Eggstronauts because we wanted to be ambitious. We did 4 tests to decide which materials we thought would work best against the 3500 degrees Fahrenheit blow torch. In the end, we decided on a heat shield that included aluminum foil, some sponges, and duct tape to keep everything together. We were the first group to do it in our class. It was kind of disappointing after when ours had 5 millimeters of cooking.

This is a photo of our prototype before we did the test.

This is a photo of our prototype after the test. This was a very fun project and I would love to do more projects like this one!