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Students will experiment with inclined planes to determine how to reduce the amount of force required to move an object. The students will have to solve a problem in which they must determine the most...
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Bill Austin, assistant principal at Oakland Primary School show us some 'shocking' experiments with static electricity
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Bill Austin, assistant principal at Oakland Primary School in Sumter, uses a balloon and a skewer to demonstrate surface tension.
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South Carolina State Museum Education Manager Laura Ybarra Kane conducts science experiments with liquid nitrogen. She explains the reactions in a fun, easy to follow style that keeps viewers engaged.
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Dana Moore works at IMCS as a biomanufacturing associate. Dana's love for science started while she was a student at the Governor's School of Virginia. She dreaded taking a physics class, but...
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Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems (IMCS) creates, manufactures and distributes next-generation biotechnology products to clinical and forensic toxicology, academic research facilities, US...
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Scientists at the University of Georgia’s Center for Applied Isotope Study use an accelerator mass spectrometer to count Carbon-14 isotopes to determine the age of ancient material.
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An aerial 3D laser scanning system detects two mysterious circles on Pockoy Island.
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Students will make inferences based on their knowledge of Newton’s laws.
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South Carolina State Museum educators Laura Ybarra Kane and Diana Yoder perform a science experiment, setting fire to different types of salt to compare the colors of the flames.