Sodium Alginate is derived from seaweed and is used as a gelling agent in foods like pie fillings, jellies and even green olive stuffing’s. I think it’s just fun to play with. When you add the alginate to a calcium chloride salt solution it turns into a jet nearly instantly. You can make tiny spheres (or caviar) if you drip it, or if you squirt a solid stream it will turn gel into a “wormy” tube filled with a liquid interior. Read more
The whoosh tube is a classic demonstration of combustion. A small amount of alcohol inside the jug will fill the container with flammable vapors. Dropping a match in side will quickly ignite the vapors.
Exposing dino bones in the Dino Dig Special Exhibition at Imagination Station. Read more
The Big Dig was the first new in house created special exhibition at Imagination Station.
Balloon Boy is all the rage in the news today. The big question is could he really have been taken aloft by the balloon? Let find out. Read more
Imagination Station opened on Saturday, October 10, 2009. Here we are playing around in our newest exhibit, the hurrican chamber. Read more
The Flame Tube during the opening days of Imagination Station.
Coffee with Jack and Cynthia Ford and an attempt to self-carve a pumpkin.
It doesn’t get better than this, showing what rocket fuel sounds like in the hands of a real Astronaut. Watch as Hydrogen and Oxygen gas detonate in the palm of his hands! Read more
The self-carving pumpking was a feature our our spooky science event in 2007 along with our haunted laboratory. Read more