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Science! Fair (Thursday, Period 7)

The Friz looked sad.

In a bouncy, exclamation-point-ridden kind of way.

"Good afternoon, students!" she said, but the punctuation came over a little limp. "Today will be our last class. It's been a pleasure teaching you this semester and it's been wonderful seeing you take on new challenges and learn new things! I hope your enthusiasm for learning about the world around you continues on even after you leave this class!"

Liz dove off the lab bench and went rummaging for tissues, feeling like they may be needed.

"This will be my last class as well! I've heard from my last school that they want me back for a special summer program and next year as well. Well! Let's get to it! Time to take chances! Make mistakes! Get . . . presenting!"

Please ignore her sniffling over here.

[[Okay. So. This is how it's going to work. Post will be open for the next week. There are two threads, one for those who want to interact with the Friz and other students about their projects, and one for those who want to state a topic and handwave the presentation. Please include the mark your character would get in the class based on how much they learned from the field trips.

Any threads with the Friz will be slowplayed over the weekend. See this post for why.

~~Wait for OCD.~~ Play away. *sniffle*]]

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The Friz is ready to be wowed and amazed by your presentation!

Then again, she's wowed and amazed by most things!

Valentine had tried to learn as much as he could about this crazy yet mundane world by way of this class, but when push finally came to shove, the only thing he could think of to do a presentation on was a demonstration of physics.
Via juggling.
Because if you do something well, might as well do it for a grade... Right?

(I figure Valentine would pull off a C+ in the course, because although he's not the most brilliant kid who has gone through a science class, at least he's been trying to understand the way this world works so that he can get by here a little better.)

"WOOO!!! YEAAAAH!!!!"

Juggling? Is AWESOME. Sokka clapped and cheered.

Valentine was always a fan of applause, so he caught the balls and took a bow.
"That was my demonstration of the third law of someone by the name of Newton. A rather drab name, if you ask me, but at least he had a brain in his head." Valentine cleared his throat. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
He was making this as dramatic as he could, motioning grandly with his arms as he spoke. There was an audience, he was going to play it up for them. "I push up with my hand on the ball, the ball goes where I push it. And then keeps going, demonstrating his first law! Things in motion stay in motion!"
He paused thoughtfully. "And now they're just sitting in my pocket, doing a fantastic job of demonstrating law number two as they stay at rest."
...
Which was killing him, really. He didn't get applause if they were sitting there.
"Time to demonstrate the first and third laws again!"
And with that, Valentine resumed juggling.

And Valentine resumed getting applause. And cheers.

The Friz was also big with the applause and clapped wildly. "Wahoo! Wonderful! I think you've got it, Valentine!" Bounce, twirl, pose! "Now what are some practical applications of your research?"

"Practical?" Valentine drew a blank. "I'm a juggler by trade. This... really is a practical application, isn't it?"

Sokka stands up at the front of a class with a large cookie sheet and a butane lighter.

"So, uh, fire... isn't really a thing... it's a process..." he begins hesitantly, reading off a sheet of hastily scribbled notes. "... A, uh, exothermic chemical reaction. Which you can make burn better by adding stuff to. And if you get a fire to burn fast and hot enough, it combusts. And here's an equation."

He dutifully writes "2 KNO3 + S + 3C --> K2S + N2 + 3CO2" up on the board. Clearly, it's important. Clearly, he has NO idea what it means.

"And if you mix in sulfur and saltpeter with, you know, what you're burning, you get what Ilike to call the Hakoda Special." His voice is stronger now, because he actually knows what he's talking about.

"Watch this." He grins evilly.

Sokka takes a tiny pouch from where it's hanging on his belt, pours a small amount of the black powder inside onto the cookie sheet, and sets fire to it with the lighter. There are fizzles, sparks, and pops. Oooooh...

THEN he sets the pouch itself down and sets fire to IT. And puts his fingers in his ears and ducks. This time, there's a loud bang and shredded bits of scorched leather go flying everywhere. Sokka stands back up and waves the smoke away.

"Any questions?"

[Sokka likes science. And Science!. He probably gets an A.]

Valentine coughed and joined in the smoke-waving efforts.
"That's quite the demonstration," he mumbled, sticking a finger in his ear.

Sokka took a bow. "I can do it again, if you want?"

Valentine considered for a moment, then offered Sokka one of his juggling balls.
"Just as much flashy exploding, with only a fraction of the damage, smoke, and destruction."
And science, actually. Who needed science to blow things up when you were a juggler?

Sokka raised an eyebrow at Valentine. "But the damage and smoke are sort of the point!" he insisted.

That didn't stop him from taking the ball.

The bang is accompanied by a "WAHOO!" and happy little jig from the Friz. "Wonderful! Spectacular! Perfect example of an exothermic reaction! What are some other combustible materials that might produce this same reaction?"

"Uhhhhhh..."

Sokka's from a much lower technology level! Gunpowder is a big thing for him!
...And it's not like he paid attention to anything ELSE in the books when he was looking up stuff for the presentation.

"I... dunno?" he stammered out. "My dad just always used the guano and sulfur. Can you do this with other stuff?"

Liz will even help you!

Liz is waving an oversized foam finger!

Mac made her ~~totally handwavey~~ presentation, about the use of computers (she has to do something technogeeky, really) and programming in analysis and prediction of the shape of biological molecules. She'd created a program that did just this, which she used to illustrate her ideas.

Sokka didn't understand a thing she said, but it was nifty, so he clapped and cheered anyway.

Alphonse did his ~~way handwavey~~ presentation as well, going over a few potentially brain-hurty things about chemistry-- of course he was, it was one of the things he knew absolutely best.

Sokka... Looked at him. With an odd, confused look. And applauded, because, really, what else could you do?

Alphonse did notice his puzzled look with a sheepish grin; by now, he was awful used to those. Though the applause in the end did make him feel better.

Turtle was a little sour about the fact that her presentation was an awful lot like Sokka's in it being a detailed explaination of explosions matched with an...actual exposion.

So she was trying not to glare at him as she gave her ~~handwavey extreme~~ presentation.

Sokka whooped and cheered and applauded. Explosions ROCKED.

Or Liz! They're both totally not coming over sniffley at all!

Valentine shuffled over to Miss Frizzle and cleared his throat.
"I'd like to thank you," he stated, "for showing me - us - the class... but predominantly me, about the way science in this world works. I'd like to think that it helped me get through the semester in this place with some slight level of normalcy that I probably wouldn't have otherwise achieved was I under the impression that books here could fly, or that sphinxes were part of the food chain around here."

Ms Frizzle clasped her hands under her chin, her eyes shining happily. "Oh thank you, Valentine! That's so sweet. All a teacher can hope for is to make an impact on the lives of her students!"

You guys are amazing! I don't regret a single exclamation point! Thanks for playing along with the crazy!

The exclamation points and the classes were all fantastic! Good luck in the move! Thank you for the fun course!

EXCLAMAT!ON POINTS 4 TEH WIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay, Science! It's totally your fault that I ended up watching seveal episodes of The Magic School bus the other week! Totally! :D

Eeeee! *clings to the Friz!*

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