San Diego Union-Tribune – Sandy Coronilla
“You don’t need special powers to walk on water. That’s what many who attended this weekend’s Impossible Science Festival at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center discovered as they ran over, hopped onto and sometimes even sank into a pool of liquid Oobleck…The goal of the festival was to inspire visitors to “imagine how they can apply science to make today’s impossibilities into tomorrow’s realities,” Steven Snyder, chief executive officer of the science center, said in a statement. The reality is that American students rank 29th in math and 22nd in science when compared to their global counterparts…“The only thing separating magic from science is the understanding of the situation,” said Jason Latimer, host and designer of the festival…What better way to reach students than through curiosity and fun, Latimer said.”(more)