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Because all these links and side conversations are going by so fast, please upload, hotlink, upload, comment, or ask questions about everything that we're doing this week!


 * Oobleck related stuff

Alternative to Sodium Acetate is Sodium Thiosulfate, also know as Sodium Hyposulfite (or "Hypo" for film developing) [|Giant cystals in Mexico] [|Meteorite Metal Crystals]
 * Crystal related
 * Sulfur Lab

[|Inexpensive lighted usb microscope] [|Inexpensive handheld illuminated]
 * Digital Microscopes

[|Nitinol Heat engine! $35, call or email to order]
 * Metals

[|Metal Molds]


 * Corrosion

[|Boeing 777 Destructive wing testing]
 * Composites


 * Ceramics

Sources for equipment grants

[|ASM K-12 Grants] [|ACS High School Chemistry Grants] [|AAPT High School Physics Grants] [|First Energy Math and Science Grants] [|Digital Wish] [|Donors Choose]

[|Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh] (Also covers Eastern Ohio and Parts West Virginia)

=**Resources**=

[|All youtube videos for the week]

Simulations and Lesson Plans [|PhET]

Simulations and Probe Activites and Lesson Plans [|ITSI]

[|Virtual Chem Lab]

[|Java Physics simulations (Physlets)]

[|Visible Human (Human body sliced like we saw the metal samples at lunch)]

[|Tracker Video Analysis Software (free)] Does motion analysis //and can analyze spectra in images//

[|Plastics Game]

[|Engineering Connections TV show]

[|Formula 1] (discusses Carbon Fiber, Kevlar fuel tanks)

For Leah: real world stories to Google

Politician in CA asking for things to be as close to zero pH as possible

Sulfur in the air turning railroad tracks to Fool's Gold in Texas (Andy)g

Tin whiskers shutting down satellites

Romans using silver coins to kill bacteria in cups

Please list other camps/programs that you've attended that people might want to apply for

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