Magic of Science

The Daily Telegram sent a photographer over to our "Magic of Science" show last Thursday night. She took several photos of the show, and the Telegram usually gives us a nice photo essay on the back page of the front section. This year however, we only got a single photo. I guess the pics did not come out.

The pic here of Lewis is pretty neat though. He is performing a demonstration we call "Underwater Fireworks". This shot is of the end of the demo. At the early stage, you can see individual "sparkles" or flashes of flame as two gases react underwater. It is really beautiful. Lewis really played to the audience with the labcoat and fume mask.

Overall, the show went well. We had some technical difficulties, a couple of experiments that just did not work, and an Ostrich Egg that simply would not explode, now matter how hard we tried (the test egg required two firings to shatter; the show egg got blasted a total of five and would not break).

This is the seventh year I've put on the show. I performed almost all the demos the first two years, and now I have it so that I only MC the show and the students get all the stage time.

The crowd was estimated at 550. One of our better attendances.