Today was the science fair. I went with Jemima and we went on the train. It was at the NEC near Birmingham. Jemima’s Mummy is an engineer and her company had a special room where we could go for food and they had salt and vinegar crisps, yummy!

We put weights on a chocolate bar to see who strong it was. We could put 700g on top of it before it broke

Then we melted the edges of 4 chocolate bars on a bottle of hot water. We stuck the bars together to make a box shape.

Then when it was cool we added weights to the box shaped chocolate we had welded together.

We put about 20kg on to it before it broke with a big bang as the weights fell down. Jemima screamed!

The chocolate was much stronger welded together as a box shape!

We got to fly an aeroplane simulator

Learn how to protect buildings from flooding (dressed like real engineers!)

This is a giant and cuddly E. Coli bacteria

I was a plant doctor and learned how to diagnose bacterial, fungal and viral infections in plants and use the cool microscope. I would love a white scientist coat like this!

This is blueberry DNA I extracted

We generated electricity with an exercise bike and a rowing machine.  Mummy told be she fell off a rowing machine one at the gym but I did not fall off this one.

We had to balance the guns correctly on the Mary Rose model so it would not sink. Not like the Tudors who sank the real ship.

This ball stayed up by sitting on blow out air. You could make it move by partly covering where the air came out with your hands.

I learned about why caterpillar tracks are used on heavy trucks on the sand and gravel beach to launch the lifeboat.  This thing is a Newton meter and it measures how much you have to pull the model truck over the gravel.

This is a Lego model of a jet engine!

We used an Infra Red camera to guide us in the dark. I did not like this as I was in the dark while Mummy guided me by looking at the camera pictures from my helmet camera.

Then we used colour filters to break the code and defeat Spectra and get a cool ruler and pen as a prize!