Growing corn, a summary

Our corn growing experiment is finally at an end. We went from popcorn kernel to ears of corn. I have to admit I didn't imagine that we would actually pull this off. We knew almost nothing when we started - even mistaking the flowering part of the corn stalk for the corn - but with a lot of luck (and some research along the way), we actually grew corn. Jr. scientist A loved watching his corn grow and get taller than him. He was so excited when we got to pick the first ear of corn - he wanted to tell everyone! Now what can we try to grow next year?

Mentos-powered fountain

I've been wanting to do this one for awhile. We added mentos to diet coke and got a big fountain of cola. We tried to add 4 mentos but couldn't get more than 3 in before the fountain started (I had also hoped to get far away before it went off, but oh well). Jr. scientist A really liked this one. Jr. scientist E also joined us for her first experiment, but I think it was too fast (a few seconds in total) for her to notice.