Visit to the Boston Museum of Science

A couple of weeks ago we traveled to the Boston Museum of Science. It is such a great place to explore and learn. It seems like we never have enough time to see everything but we make the time to visit our favorite areas. One of these areas is the engineering challenge. Jadon spends at least a half an hour here. It would be longer but his brother and sister start to get tired of waiting.

This year, Grant gave it a try too. The challenge was to build a boat that could travel the fastest on their water race track without sinking. A second challenge was to build a boat that could carry the most gems across the water track without sinking.

Jadon went straight for the speed challenge. Grant decided he liked the gem challenge. Both worked very hard with their own creative ideas. How many sails to use? How many gems to start with?




Jadon AND Grant both got high scores before we moved on. It was pretty exciting.
Here is the leader board...Jadon was Firefly and Grant was Speeder.


Then Jadon beat his own record!