• 9oz cups
• Raisins
• 1 or 2 liters of Mt. Dew (depending on the amount of kids you are working with)
• 2 balloons per child
• Newspaper sheet
• Baking soda
• Vinegar
• 1 eye dropper per child
• 1 ice cream sample spoon
• 9 oz cups to hold baking soda and vinegar

• Give each child a 9oz cup and fill it ¾ with Mt. Dew. We use Mt. Dew because there seems to be more carbonation.
• Give each student about ten raisins and let them put the raisins in the Mt. Dew, one at a time.
• Allow them to observe what happens. Ask them to describe the motion of their “maggots”. What is causing the “maggots” to float to the top of the cup and then fall down to bottom again?
• Ask them if they know what the word buoyancy means. Explain that bubbles are attaching themselves to the raisins and causing the raisins to float.

• Extensions:
• Allow your kids to experiment with the amount of baking soda and vinegar they use. Ask them if they can create different types of sounds with their “stomachs”

To start things off, we have assembled a factual newsletter of information that you will need to know as we get closer to the camp season. Please use this guide now and during the summer. If you download now, you will find important things, such as supplies to bring, drop-off and pick-up procedures, and how your child can get the most out of their science camp experience.

This document also covers everything from camper and parent policies to visiting accomodations, and additional camp offerings. It also provides our parents with all of the important contact information.

2008 Parent Newsletter 

Sir Isaac Newton is best known for explaining how gravity works. Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643. As a child, he loved to make model windmills and other mechanical toys, but he did badly in school and even worse running the family estate.

At the University of Cambridge, both the students and professors disliked him because of the chip on his shoulder. He was about to quit when one of his professors recognized the genius behind his rude behavior and became Newton’s special tutor.

It was while he was on a break from Cambridge that Newton started thinking about gravity. Scientists already knew such a force existed, but Newton found the formula to describe how much force any two bodies will exert on each other. Since he couldn’t prove his theory with the mathematics available, he invented calculus to do it for him. He explained the mathematical theory on tides under gravitational pull from the sun, moon and earth. He discovered the secrets of light and color and showed how the universe is held together. He made all of those amazing discoveries within 18 months, between 1665 and 1667, though he didn’t publish his theory on how gravity works until 1687. Some people call that book, The Principia, the greatest scientific book ever written. He also invented the reflecting telescope.

Newton was knighted by Queen Anne and became Sir Isaac in 1705.

February 1, 2008 – Canton, GA- Club Scientific, LLC (formerly Summer Science Day Camps), a Georgia based company is launching a new franchise opportunity and expanding its unique science themed day camps and school enrichment programs.

Club Scientific was founded on the principle that parents want to provide their children with exciting, challenging, and life impacting academic enrichment experiences. The company is committed to demonstrating how science works in the real world by providing activities in veterinary medicine, robotics, forensics, video game creation, food science, paleontology, engineering, chemistry and biology.

Since 1997, more than 30,000 children have attended one or more of Club Scientifics’ science day camps or school programs. Now, one of the most unique providers of science enrichment programs for kids has officially started its expansion through franchising. “Expansion through franchising has been a long term goal for Club Scientific and now it is a reality” says Club Scientifics’ president Bob Hagan.

“We are extremely excited to offer our years of experience in operating science enrichment programs to qualified individuals who want to turn their passion for children, science, and business into a career” says Hagan. “We are looking for individuals who share our same purpose of getting kids excited about science and teaching them life long skills in a fun, challenging and nurturing environment.

Club Scientific has been a recognized name in delivering quality science enrichment activities for more than 10 years. Club Scientific believes that every child is a scientist and that we can make them even better scientists. All Club Scientific programs are focused on dramatic science demonstrations accompanied by hands-on/minds-on experiments and projects that meet or exceed National Science Education Standards.

Club Scientific offers an affordable franchise opportunity ideal for parents and child enthusiasts seeking to get into business for themselves in a fun and academically rich environment. The franchise fee is $20,000 and the total investment range is $56,000-$86,000. Franchisees are supported by a comprehensive operations manual, intranet support service, extensive on and off-site training, educator prepared lesson plans for each class, marketing support, and on-going consultations.

With a slogan reading “Science was never this much fun!”, Club Scientific takes children’s enrichment opportunities to a whole new level by offering 17 different science themed day camps, after-school science clubs, in-school field trips, science birthday parties, pre-school workshops, and scouting badge projects.

For more information:

www.clubscientific.com

franchiseinfo@clubscientific.com

770-345-7080

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General Information for all of our 8 day camp sites:

• The cost of our science camps is $225.00 per week
• Camps operate Monday-Friday and the regular camp day is from 9:00-3:30
• Registration begins on November 1, 2007.  Space is limited to 16 campers per camp.  We offer 6 different themed  camps per location per week.
• For an additional fee, we have Pre-Camp which begins at 8:00 am and is $25.00 per week.  We also offer Post Camp which is from 3:30-5:00 pm. and is $35.00 per week.
• Registration is completed through our online registration service.  You will receive an e-mail confirmation.  Please keep this confirmation and your password for your records.
• Campers are responsible for their own lunch and snacks each day.
• Camp T-Shirts must be worn at all times during camp.  Every camper will be given one camp shirt with their initial registraion, regardless of the number of weeks the camper is signed up for.  Additional shirts may be pre-ordered online at the time of registration.  All shirts will be available the first day of camp.
• We do NOT take off - campus field trips.  All activities are completed on-site.
• To register:  1. Go to www.clubscientific.com 2. Click on summer camps 3. On the summer camp page click on the registration button.
• After the initial registration, you can return to the registration site and enter your user name and password under "returning users" to make payments, add weeks, or view your account information.
• For cancellations please send us an e-mail with your child’s name, site location and camp week(s) you wish to cancel.  Please read our Cancellation Policy.
• Please contact us if you need additional information.  Feel free to print a copy of the Parent Newsletter for complete day camp details.

By Terry Rindfleisch/ La Crosse Tribune

Don Herbert inspired many baby boomers as children and sparked an interest in science through his long-running "Mr. Wizard" television show in the 1950s and 1960s.

But "Mr. Wizard" had his start in La Crosse, growing up here and graduating both from Central High School in 1935 and what then was known as the La Crosse Teachers College in 1940.

Herbert, who had bone cancer, died Tuesday at age 89 at his home in Bell Canyon, California.

To baby boomers, Herbert was what "Sesame Street" and Mr. Rogers was for their children.  His popular TV show, "Watch Mr. Wizard," ran on NBC-TV from 1951 to 1965.

The show revived on NBC in 1971 for a season, and then he hosted "Mr. Wizard’s World" on the Nickelodeon channel from 1983 to 1990.

Herbert twice was nominated for an Emmy and won a Peabody Award for best TV program for children, plus three Thomas Edison awards.  He showed up frequently on talk shows, including "The Tonight Show" and " Late Night with David Letterman."

His demonstrations seemed magical - he’d put a hard-boilded egg over a milk bottle that contained a burning piece of paper and poof, the egg was in the bottle - but he explained the science behind them.

He was credited with popularizing science in the U.S.; more than 5,000 Mr. Wizard clubs formed acorss the country in response to his show.

Don Olson, now retired after 25 years as a Central physics teacher, said Mr. Wizard helped ignite his interest in science.

"I tried to do the same things in my classrrom as Mr. Wizard - to make things interesting," Olson said.

" I liked that Mr. Wizard always asked, ‘Why does it do that?’ He brought science to the kids’ level and showed how much fun science can be."

Gary Checkai, a Central chemistry teacher for 31 years, said his parochial school didn’t teach science, so he turned to Mr. Wizard.

"I liked that he tied everything to experiments, " Checkai said.  "Too many kids think they should learn science when they should be experiencing it."

Mr. Wizard was born Don Herbert Kemske in Waconia, Minn., but attened schools in La Crosse.  He said he became interested in science when he was a Boy Scout in La Crosse.

He received an undergraduate degree in English and General Science, but never taught a class.  Known for his acting ability in college, he pursued that and radio work after graduating.

Herbert was cast for a youth lead in a Broadway show but never played the role because he volunteered for the Army Air Corps and flew 56 missions over Italy, Germany and Yugoslavia, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.

"He never became a science teacher, but you might say he was everybody’s science teacher," said Mary Patrol of La Crosse, a classmate of Herberts at Central High School.  "More people probably became science teachers because of him."

Patros said her brother, George Markos, was a close friend of Herbert, and she would see Herbert when he’d return to visit his mother, Lydia Kemske.

Patros nominated Herbert for Central’s Hall of Excellence award, and he was inducted in 2003.  He could not attend the ceremony, so Patros said a few words for him.

Herbert appeared as well on the CBS-TV children’s show, "Razzmatazz." He produced a series of 90 second science spots, "How About," for news and information TV shows.

He also produced numerous science programs for adults and classroom films for students. He developed a video series for teachers and wrote numerous science books, including "Mr. Wizard Supermarket Science" and "Mr. Wizard Experiements for Young Scientists."

Herbert received the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s distinguished alumni award in 1984, and spoke at UW-L commencement in 1968.

He said in that speech, "Curiosity can act as a catalyst.  In the future, it may not be the independent discovery but the development of curiosity that is the most important thing."

Herbert is survived  by his wife of 34 years, Norma; his two sons and a daughter from his first marriage, Jay and Jeffrey and Jill Rogers; his step daughters, Kendra Jeffcoat amd Kris Nikosey; his stepson, Kim Kaseil; and 13 grandchildren. 

Many thanks to Terry Rindfleisch and the La Crosse Tribune for allowing us to reprint this article.

It is with deep sadness that we regret to announce the passing of Don Herbert - the one and only "Mr. Wizard". Don lost his battle with cancer today, June 12, 2007, at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time - slightly more than one month shy of his 90th birthday. He was lovingly surrounded by his family, who are at once, saddened by his passing, and relieved that he is no longer suffering.

We all feel extremely lucky to have had him in our lives and to have known and worked with Don over the years. We have also been tremendously honored to carry on his legacy as an original and truly legendary figure in the worlds of both Television and Science Education. He has been inspirational and influential in so many ways and on so many lives and we are comforted in the fact that his ground breaking work and legacy will continue to inspire many more people for years to come.

Thank you so much to all of you for your support and sympathy.

Sincerely, The Family

Pasteur became a professor of chemistry at the University of Lille in 1854.  It was here that he began studying fermintation of wine and beer.  He became convinced that "the germs of microorganisms abound in the surface of all objects, in the air and in water."  These views were expressed in a paper he wrote in 1878.  He was able to demonstrate that "germs" cause milk to sour and also led to infectious diseases.

Pasteur discovered that these microorganisms could be killed by heat.  As a result, he invented the process of heat treatment to kill harmful bacteria.  His discovery led him to be recognized as a pioneer in preventative medicine.

Surrounded by great skepticism, Pasteur was able to develop vaccines to  control diseases such as chicken cholera and anthrax, which was then a serious threat to livestock and occasionally humans.

In 1880 Pasteur turned his attention to develop a vaccine to control hydrophobia, (rabies).  The only way to test the rabies vaccine was to inject it into a human.  He was able to do this in July of 1885 with a young boy named Joseph Meister.  As a result of successfully treating the boy, Pasteur became an international celebrity.

Pasteur virtually created the science of immunology and continued to work up until the time of his death.  He received many awards and honors in his life time.  A grateful France founded the Pasteur Institute, which became one of the most productive centers for biological studies in the world.

Pasteur was burned in a crypt in the Pasteur Institute.  There is a story that in 1940 the conquering Germans came to Paris.  A German officer demanded to see the tomb of Pasteur, but the soldier guarding the tomb refused to open the gate.  When the German office insisted, the Frenchman killed himself.  His name was Joseph Meister, the boy Pasteur had saved from hydrophobia (rabies) years ago.

Materials

Dish-washing soap (Dawn works great)

A four color box of food coloring

Aluminum pan or plastic dinner plate

Whole milk

Q-tips

What to do

1. Place enough of the milk to cover the bottom of the pan or plate.

2. In the center of the milk place a drop of each of the food colors.  Try not to mix the drops of color.

3. Take a clean Q-tip and push it into the center of the drops of color for about 10 seconds and then remove it.  Observe the interaction of the colors in the milk.

4. Then, dip another Q-tip in some dish-washing soap such a s Dawn.

5. Now place the soap covered Q-tip into the center of the milk for about 10 seconds and then remove it.  Observe what happens in the milk.  Repeat the experiment using just water, fat free or 1% milk.

Why is that?

Cow’s milk consists of about 87% water and 13% dry substance.  The dry substance is suspended or dissolved in the water.  These substances consist of fat, protein, lactose (milk sugar) and minerals (salts).  Milk also contains trace amounts of other substances such as pigments, enzymes, vitamins, and phospholipids, (substances with fat like properties).

The food coloring is water based and will travel and diffuse better through an aqueus (water) medium than through fat.  Whole milk has a larger proportion of fat, so the food coloring does not move much.

Soap detergent is bipolar, meaning that one end of the molecule is attracted to the water and the other end is attracted to the fat in the milk.  This change in the water/fat interaction allows for the rapid diffusion of the food coloring. 

Water also has surface tension which is the tendancy for water molecules to stick together.  Initially this property keeps the drops of food coloring together.  The soap breaks this surface tension by breaking the bonds between water molecules and the colors begin to fly everywhere.

Our daughter, was the grateful recipient of a scholarship to Camp Little Engineer and Camp Jurassic these last two weeks in Peachtree City. She absolutely enjoyed the camps and learned a lot of interesting things.  I would never have guessed 4 and 5 year olds could have a basic understanding of circuits, but I guess they do! Thank you for your generosity!

 "The best thing I liked about science camp was the circuit board."

The Bobkowski Family

Dear Club Scientific,

I just wanted to tell you how much fun our son had at camp — he learned a lot!  We would be interested in your after-school program at our son’s elementary school in the fall. We have been so pleased with your camps!

Thanks again and we will see you next summer!

The Ryley Family

Dear Club Scientific,

My sons just completed two sessions of camp.  We have been to many summer camps of all kinds and even do after school science programs.  I have never met anyone as professional and friendly as your camp director. My older son was enrolled last week and she noticed my younger son who was with me.  She immediately engaged him and encouraged him to enroll in the camp the next week, which we did. Thank you for a wonderful science camp experience!

The Eller Family

Dear Club Scientific,

I just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful camping experience. My daughter attended the Little Scientists Camp, which she truly enjoyed.  The projects were very interesting.  I believe that my daughter who is entering kindergarten, will now have a "leg up" having attended your camps.  She knows that science can be fun.  We are looking forward to next year!

The Johnson Family

Dear Club Scientific,

My son has just completed the Robot Camp and Video Game Maker Camp.  I am compelled to tell you that we are so pleased with his experiences over the last two weeks.  My son comes home raving everyday about what he has accomplished.  He is also full of detailed questions which I am sure are collegiate-level material.  In addition to the fun factor, he realizes that knowledge gives mankind the power to create and innovate.  These activities have helped to cement his understanding that learning and thinking actually have practical applications.  This is a concept that can be hard to teach to a grade school child.

We are recommending your camps to all of our friends.  Please keep up the good work!  The kids are worth it!

The Frantz Family

Dear Club Scientific,

THANK YOU for creating a fantastic summer science camp program!  My son is in his 2nd year of summer science camps and my daughter is old enough to participate for the first time this year.  Both of them have thoroughly enjoyed all of the camps! It is amazing to see how much they are learning while having fun!  On the way home from camp last week my son asked me, "Mommy, do you know about Newtons Third Law; For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?" Then he proceeded to explain how the class learned about Newton’s Third Law through activities and experiments.  That is pretty amazing for a six year old child!

As a parent, I am also very pleased with the leadership of the Counselors and their interaction with the children.  I can tell that a lot of planning, work and caring goes into making each week of camp a success!

Thank you for providing the Summer Science Day Camps!  We look forward to next year!

The Mohandiss Family

Dear Club Scientific,

I am forever grateful to you fo allowing my son to attend two weeks of camp under your scholarship program. He was hesitant at first about going to camp, but soon realized how much fun it was to learn about dinosaurs and engineering.  I even had a hard time getting him to leave! That says a lot about your wonderful staff and how they made my son feel comfortable being there. He loved his camp counselor! He would even go back to give her another goodbye hug each day.Your camps are great, educational camps! My son adopted quickly to the classes and was always excited to show me what he learned or made that day.  What wonderful changes I saw in my son!

The Norton Family

Dear Club Scientific,

Thank you so much for helping our two sons get into the same camp.  We appreciate all of your hard work and working with us. Both boys have LOVED their two weeks of camp and we look forward to next summer!

The Abramson Family

Dear Club Scientific,

I would personally like to thank you for my daughter’s wonderful camp experience.  She attended Emergency Vet Camp and loved every minute of it.  She especially liked the grooming session!  My daughter has always talked of going to Vet school and now she can’t wait!  She also attended your camp CSI and enjoyed the GBI’s visit and working with the substance that shows up blood at a crime scene.

Once again, thank you for providing high quality camps for children.  Our children are our future!

The Walters Family