Classes are now in full swing and we are already off to a flyer with lots of fun learning being had.
We have also introduced a new offer!
Receive a free class off your next package when you a refer a friend and they sign up for the term. While we are at it, your friend will get a free class too!
SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND
Nothing is ever too far out of reach for a good wizard. Clear your mind, focus only on the object, cast the spell - “Accio *insert object name*”, and watch it fly into your waiting hand. And while science may not be able to summon your flying broom from the other side of Hogwarts, magnets can exert magical attractive forces from a distance, as seen by our DIY magnetic toys. Sure, the other object needs to either be a magnet or have some amount of magnetic material in it, but that’s where static comes to the rescue. It has no such limitation. Balloons, cans, water, bubbles, they will all be summoned to our electric wills!
MYTH BUSTERS
While there are many good reasons to avoid unhealthy treats, can certain combinations cause our stomachs to explode? Pop Rocks and Coke? Or perhaps, Mentos and Coke? Now, we can’t risk our gastric (and overall) health by testing these the easy way, so it’s time to break out the labware. A whole lot of fizz later, we will be down at the microscopic level, looking at the sweet surfaces of candy with all its nucleation sites - places responsible for the formation of everything from soda bubbles to clouds in the sky. Using these sites to our advantage, it will then be time to paint our ceiling with fountains of fizz!
PERIODIC PIONEERS
Two classes in and still on element 2 of 118 - it’s time to get a move on! Elements with the same number of electrons in their outer “orbit” belong to the same Group and have properties so similar that we can examine them as a whole. For example, the Group I & II metals behave like no metal we have ever encountered before. They are soft, dull, and highly reactive. So reactive, in fact, that the pure sodium we will drop into water will explode, and the magnesium we will burn will burst into brilliant white flames. And using their ability to form bases, we will concoct some milk of magnesia and use it to neutralise vinegar and make a chemical rainbow.
