"Trial and Error Experiments" (age 11-16)
Tuesdays 9:00-10:00 am, Thursdays 8:30-9:30 am, or Fridays 9:00 - 10:00 am.

For the older students, we will choose from the list below (unless you have another suggestion that seems more interesting). Depending on the students' interest, we may spend more time on certain topics and omit others, so actual lessons covered in the class may differ from this list:

1. Find ways to pass your hand through a teddy bear without feeling anything.
   
2. Find ways to block cell phone and radio signals.
   
3. Find ways to look right at the sun safely.
   
4. Find ways to make a loose brick house lean as far off the edge of the cliff as possible.
   
5. Find ways to make a black and white picture look like a color picture.
   
6. Find ways to block really loud sounds from your ears.
   
7. Find ways to make a spinning object reverse directions all by itself.
   
8. Find ways to open a door with fire.
   
9. Find ways to automatically pour water on a mob of torch-carrying minions.
   
10. Find ways to make something fly in circles and bonk you on the back of your head
    
    (return to schedule)

The lessons will be modified depending on the skill level of the students.

1. Make a straw fly clear out of sight.
   
2. Make a water-powered car.
   
3. Make a balloon fly as high as you can with no helium.
   
4. Make a bubble with you inside.
   
5. Make a smoke ring machine gun.
   
6. Make a roller coaster that ll do loop-de-loops.
   
7. Lift a friend up onto the table with one hand.
   
8. Launch a water balloon far, far away.
   
9. Make a latex glove sound like a love-sick moose.
   
10. Make a gravity-defying butterfly to scare evil Mister Fred.