At this rate, we're totally going to beat the Soviets to the moon! The Randall Museum is sponsoring the 24th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair (scroll down), where middle schoolers in public and private schools will be putting their plywood tryptich hinged displays together, and carefully gluing on sheets of notebook paper that have the words "HYPOTHESIS," "EXPERIMENT" and "CONCLUSION" ornately lettered at the top. Fun!

Though -- man, if you didn't believe science had advanced since those halcyon/horrifying days of fetal pig dissection, or if you thought that SF was no place to send a child to school, you gotta check out some of these projects -- the optimum angle for solar panels and viscosity of liquids at different temperatures -- but the one we're the most excited for is the project about why you can't use pineapple in jello molds. We're dying to know!

Projects are being set up all week (.pdf), the awards ceremony is on Friday, and the fair opens to the public for one week, starting this Saturday. We are to know why pineapples make jello fall apart (don't spoil it for us, anyone!).

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