At tonight’s meeting we made steamboats. We had been learning about how steam engines were used to help power machines and boats. Mr. Jim cut some left over wood for us and Ms. Cristy got the copper tubing and candles we needed to power them.

We had a special guest come in to talk to us. Jake (not from State Farm) is an engineer who works with medical equipment. He explained how heating the copper tubing with the candle would pull water into the tubing and then push it out the other side. He also answered a lot of questions we had about a lot of science things.