Fun With Physics, Liquid Nitrogen, and a Robotic Snake

4/29/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

WASHINGTON—3M Visiting Wizards brings physics fun, cool chemistry, and all manner of kid-friendly science lessons to elementary schools. The Wizards made science fun for their audience at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., held April 2627, 2014.

Elsewhere at Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the host venue of the festival, things were being frozen and smashed. Liquid nitrogen is a sure-fire way to get children engaged:

 

A volunteer at the MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab booth explains how a robot mimics the movements of a snake:

 

Epoch Times was a media sponsor of the 2014 USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., April 26–27. The USA Science & Engineering Festival is a national grassroots effort to advance STEM education and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. See more articles on the USA Science & Engineering Festival.