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In our grade 9 science class (and apart of our COL), we conducted a pop can race. Our goal was to make a pop can move, without touching it. We were given many materials for this to happen, but, my group chose a balloon, and fur/hair. At the end, we decided to use a team member’s hair. We rubbed the balloon against the hair, thus, creating static. We placed the balloon close enough to the pop can, (without touching it), so that the static could ‘push’ the pop can and make it move forward. It worked, just as we planned, the pop can moved from the ‘power’ of the static that the balloon and the hair created. But, we did not go that far, since there was a bump in the pop can that made it difficult for it to move any far distance.

The collaboration for this ‘experiment’ went very well. When we felt comfortable with what we were doing, all 3 of us imputed different ideas, and experimented with all of them. We listened to each other, and in the end, we were able to make a pop can move without touching it.

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-Kalen