Science Day in WIT - 2005

      On Tuesday 15^th of November 2005 fifth and sixth class went on a science tour to W.I.T Campus at College Street Waterford. It was to do with space. The staff and members of the Armagh Planetarium came to W.I.T with some exhibitions. First we went into a big blue dome which was supported by a large fan. Even our teacher had to go in! When you went in it was very dark.

    There was an instructor who turned on a projector. It showed us all the planets and what they look like up close. When we were finished that,we went on to stars and how they can join up to make a shape. These are some shapes we saw Orion, Pisces, Capricorn, Great Dog, Little Dog, The Plough and The North Star. As you might know some of them are star-signs.

    Just as we were going the instructor showed us how to find our way home in the dark. She told us The North Star never moved and to find it you just had to find a shape that looked like A Plough and move five spaces down and you’ll be at it. [If you count right.] Then she whizzed the stars around and it made us dizzy.

    When we got out of the dome we went to a talk. There was a different instructor giving the talk. His talk was all about magnets, electricity and static electricity. First he called up a girl and rubbed a balloon on her hair, then got a tin and without touching the tin he put the balloon in front of the tin and the tin moved! That was called static electricity. Then he told us about real electricity and how you could die from poking something into a socket. If you ever see anyone doing something dangerous with a plug or a socket never hang on to them as you too could get a shock instead you could give them a shoulder as it would knock them away from the source of the electric shock. It could save their life. Then the instructor explained to us how magnets and robots work. The robots were run by light and solar power. When that talk was over it was time to go back to the bus. It was a very educational day.