Comments on: Science Fair http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455 See what large letters I use as I write to you in my own hand. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:05:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: pentamom http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-221 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-221 Stuff like missing science fairs *is* one of the reasons we homeschool (only half kidding.) Science fairs are some of my most traumatic homeschooling memories. But to each his own -- that's another beauty of homeschooling. :-) Stuff like missing science fairs *is* one of the reasons we homeschool (only half kidding.) Science fairs are some of my most traumatic homeschooling memories.

But to each his own — that’s another beauty of homeschooling. :-)

]]> by: pentamom http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-222 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-222 Oops, I mean, "Science fairs are some of my most traumatic *school* memories." Oops, I mean, “Science fairs are some of my most traumatic *school* memories.”

]]> by: jed http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-223 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-223 Ah, the trebuchet. There's just nothing like it. Someday, I will build one. Some friends and I were going to do so a few years back, with the intent of winning the annual pumpkin hurl at one of the Halloween/Harvest festival things out in Aurora. Well, life intervened, as it often does. Yeah, trebuchets are way cool. Ah, the trebuchet. There’s just nothing like it. Someday, I will build one. Some friends and I were going to do so a few years back, with the intent of winning the annual pumpkin hurl at one of the Halloween/Harvest festival things out in Aurora. Well, life intervened, as it often does.

Yeah, trebuchets are way cool.

]]> by: Fairchild http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-224 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-224 >Yeah, trebuchets are way cool. >Yeah, trebuchets are way cool.

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-225 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-225 Pentamom: My kids will probably end up saying the same thing. Dad will never push them to be Captain of the Team, but he will drive them to do good science fair projects. Jed: "Trebuchets are really cool" was the <i>real</i> conclusion of the experiment. We had to make up the stuff about the mathematical model just for appearances. Zach is after me to build a larger-scale treb for that same event. It would be hard to beat that slingshot that's there every year, though. Fairchild: Whose idea was the Quickrete, again? :) Pentamom:

My kids will probably end up saying the same thing. Dad will never push them to be Captain of the Team, but he will drive them to do good science fair projects.

Jed:

“Trebuchets are really cool” was the real conclusion of the experiment. We had to make up the stuff about the mathematical model just for appearances.

Zach is after me to build a larger-scale treb for that same event. It would be hard to beat that slingshot that’s there every year, though.

Fairchild:

Whose idea was the Quickrete, again? :)

]]> by: pentamom http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-226 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/455#comment-226 If I had had a parent who was really involved in science fairs, I might have felt differently. But I always wound up being the kid with the really lame-o thing because my parents didn't feel it was their job to help me with schoolwork (and I really don't have a problem with that idea when you're paying taxes and/or tuition, just on the theory that kids need to be responsible for their own work) and teachers just let the kids figure it out for ourselves almost entirely, which meant that the kids with either a natural scientific bent or parents who liked to help with projects, or both, shone like stars, and the rest of us hated the whole process and looked lousy. :-) If I had had a parent who was really involved in science fairs, I might have felt differently. But I always wound up being the kid with the really lame-o thing because my parents didn’t feel it was their job to help me with schoolwork (and I really don’t have a problem with that idea when you’re paying taxes and/or tuition, just on the theory that kids need to be responsible for their own work) and teachers just let the kids figure it out for ourselves almost entirely, which meant that the kids with either a natural scientific bent or parents who liked to help with projects, or both, shone like stars, and the rest of us hated the whole process and looked lousy. :-)

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