Overall, my paper airplanes were successful, but I can see where they could’ve been improved. My most successful one used the “Professional” design from Origami Way’s website. I originally chose it because it look simple enough to fold, but had a well-rounded description. It lived up to these expectations, but the real trick to its…

From small sleigh bells to boxing gongs, a bell obtains several physical properties while they are made. For example, the resilience of a bell is important because it gets hit with a mallet or ball bearing every time it is used. Resilience is defined as “a material’s ability to absorb energy and deform elastically.” If…

There is a good chance that you, like I, have tried rubbing a balloon against your sweater or hair and sticking it to a wall. This is pretty cool to play with, but have you ever thought about why this works? I hadn’t and that’s why I found this week’s technology project so interesting. A…

Last week we learned about levers. Before last week I knew that I used levers in shovels, scissors, and other devices, but I had no idea that there were different classes of levers or that there is so much science behind them! What was even more interesting and fun than the lesson though, was the…