San Fernando Valley : Inventors’ Show Dazzles Students
Never underestimate the power of slime.
That message came through loud and clear Friday at a showcase of inventors and their inventions that concludes Sunday at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City.
In a makeshift exhibit hall created in the hotel’s concrete parking garage, Kerry DeLine of Science Adventures entertained rapt crowds of schoolchildren with a demonstration of molecule-chained polymers. Mixing liquid borax with polyvinyl alcohol, she created bowl after bowl of a glittery, gelatinous goo that she gave away in plastic cups.
“I love the exchanges with the kids,” DeLine said while mixing a fresh batch. “They never get this stuff in the classroom so it’s fascinating to them.”
It was an interesting interactive lesson for a bunch of sixth-graders at Granada Hills’ Porter Middle School, but some seemed just as interested in dangling it from their noses.
“I’m going to gross out my sister,” boasted Jaime Lujan.
The show is the brainchild of Alan Tratner, who said he hopes to make it a biannual presentation.
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