Program heads to school

The program offers pupils hands-on experiments in three focus areas.
BOARDMAN -- The Carnegie Science Center is bringing its Science on the Road program to St. Charles School.
Pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade will take part in three different educational programs featuring creative props, audience participation, demonstrations and experiments for the festival, set for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The program topics are the "Good Vibrations" sound program, "Fasten Your Seat Belts" transportation program and "Fire and Ice-The Game," featuring activities focusing on extreme heat and cold.
The programs will be in the school gymnasium, cafeteria and the church social hall at 7325 Westview Drive.
Sound show
"Good Vibrations" features Carnegie Science Center's new sound show. Pupils will learn the properties of sound and how it is made. Included are demonstrations on how heat produces sound in a giant slide whistle and how sound is inspiring new video technology.
In "Fasten Your Seat Belts," science demonstrations will transport pupils from hot-air balloons to the space shuttle. The program will include how a steam engine works and will end with a combustion engine's being modeled.
Interactive show
"Fire and Ice -- The Game" is an audience-participation game show that pits the Fire Team against the Ice Team in a collection of visual demonstrations. Pupils will learn what happens to matter when it gets really hot and really cold. They will also learn about combustion and the fire triangle. A liquid nitrogen demonstration will show pupils what happens when items are frozen at a temperature of 320 degrees below zero.