Paper boats

After some attempts to make floating canoes with paper and glue, which inevitably sunk when the glue dissolved, friend of the lab Arthi provided us with an origami paper boat. We sailed (and sank) our boat in the bathroom sink, much to the delight of jr scientists A and E. The experiment also turned into a surface tension experiment when our paperclip passenger stayed afloat after our boat sank. Remembering back to an old experiment, we added some dish soap and watched the paperclip plummet.