Second grade science club solves car pooling problem..

[Fumesucker]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kids-solve-the-carpool-problem/2011/05/20/AGODRdFH_story.html

The second-grade science club at Concord Hill School in Chevy Chase has proved it: Kids can change the world.

The club entered the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, a national science competition asking kids to solve an environmental problem at their school. The 13 students wanted to improve their school’s afternoon carpool line, after calculating that the 50 to 60 cars were burning gas at the rate of six gallons an hour while waiting in line.

“The Earth is getting warmer, and we needed to help save the environment from pollution,” said Lindsay Kaplan, 8.

And they did. The kids not only won first place in the competition for their age group — along with a $5,000 award for the school — they also solved Concord Hill’s carpool problem.

[GeorgeGist]

1. For $22,000/yr ...

your 2nd grader can be a winner too.

[Fumesucker]

2. $22K/year to educate, $30K/year to incarcerate..

Which do you think is the better value?

[Ezlivin]

4. Incarceration is the best!

'Cause we get free labor out of the deal.

And there's the extra benefit of having reduced a human's ability to ever live independently from the state. Once enough citizens are properly processed through the system we'll have a totally malleable population.

[Scuba]

3. And Repubs want to kill education. Morons.

[wildeyed]

5. Excellent!

I am going to ask if I can sponsor an after school science club at my son's school based on this challenge. So many math and science challenge programs seem geared only to gifted and academically intense kids and families. I like this because it is very hands-on and pragmatic, but uses good scientific methods at a level that younger kids can understand.