How can home-educated young people possibly do science?

[SDeuchars]

Given the number of "what if" threads about the futures for EHE young people at the moment, I thought I'd publicise my congratulations to home-educated teenagers, Callum and Alan, who took awards at the Big Bang Fair last weekend.

They won two prizes in Young Engineer for Britain:

• Engineering Excellence Award
  
• Intel ISEF Invitation
  

They were also highly commended in the NSEC Intermediate Engineering and Technology Award.

Both were members of the Tech HEds robotics team two years ago and their invention is an evolution of a Tech HEds project.

[MeanMom]

Well done to them!

Must show this to MeanDad :)

[CakeMixture]

Yay SDeuchars that is great to read!

I did a fab really easy experiment with my dc today. Ok so they are not secondary level so its not advanced science but they loved it so much -especially that their predictions were completely wrong! :o

Take 6 icecubes:
Wrap 5 of them in different things to see which is best at insulating the icecube to delay it melting. Leave one unwrapped as a comparison.
We wrapped ours in foil, cotton wool, plastic bag, newspaper, bubblewrap.
We had a look at each every 30minutes.

The problem I faced in doing this was that we didnt have any icecube trays, trying to buy one in march was really difficult (not icecube season!)